Zamia Integrifolia or Coontie palm

Zamia Integrifolia or Coontie palmZamia Integrifolia or Coontie palmZamia Integrifolia or Coontie palmZamia Integrifolia or Coontie palm
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Zamia Integrifolia or Coontie palm

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Zamia Integrifolia or Coontie Palm


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About

The Zamia Integrifolia plant (also known as the Coontie Palm) is native to the southeastern United States, the Bahamas, Cuba, the Cayman Islands, and Puerto Rico

Key Features

Seed cones

produces reddish seed cones with a distinct acuminate tip

seeds

cones produce red/orange seeds

Leaves

leaves grow to 20-100 cm longs and have 5-30 pairs of leaflets

Pollinators

The Zamia Integrifolia is pollinated by two different species of weevils called the Rhopalotria slossoni and Pharaxonotha floridana.

Value to wildlife

Used to make animal crackers. Additionally, a larval host to two species including the Atala butterfly and the echo moth

Medicinal/ historical uses

Medicinal/ historical uses

Medicinal/ historical uses

Medicinal/ historical uses

Medicinal/ historical uses

Although the Zamia Intergrifolia has no history of medical use, natives did use to extract starch from the root

Why would Planting the Coontie Palm be important?

Zamia Integrifolia is a native plant to Florida. Growing such a plant would:


-Provide habitats for wildlife

-help purify the air

- and maintain healthy soil





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