Dioon purpusii
COMMON NAME | Purpus' cycad |
TYPE | Cycad |
FAMILY | Zamiaceae |
NOTES | An attractive cycad
which forms grey-green feather-shaped leaves.
The name purpusii, is for Carl Albert Purpus, a renowned plant
collector in the early 1900s. |
GEOGRAPHIC REGION | Endemic to a very small region in
Mexico - Oaxaca, Puebla |
NATIVE HABITAT | Dry, tropical
deciduous forest, mostly in the shade of trees. Mostly they grow on the steep
rocky slopes of deep gorges together with cacti and agaves around 3200 ft
above sea level |
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