This massive boxed specimen is 18 inches in diameter and has a 26 inch tall trunk.
Macrozamia communis comes from the New South Wales province of Australia. These plants develop either a subterranean caudex, with an aerial trunking extension forming a columnar trunk, dark green colored fronds, and spineless sharply-tipped leaflets, which extend in a horizontal plane. These leaflets progressively reduce in size and become spine-like towards the base of the leaf. There is a prominent whitish callous at the point where the leaflets join the leaf axis.
This plant can have 100+ fronds which can reach 6 feet in length and which, at first, stand more or less upright but then, with age, tend to spread in a graceful arching manner to produce a palm-like appearance.
Macrozamia communis is a very cold-hardy and versatile species, which will adapt to a range of soils and climates providing that drainage is good. It enjoys a sunny or partly shaded location.
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