Stellenbosch University Botanical Garden, South Africa

Common name: scaly zamia

Family: Zamiaceae (Cycad)

Synonym: Macrozamia denisonii

Distribution: Eastern Australia

Habitat: Forest

IUCN Red list: Least concern

Life form: Evergreen perennial

Comments: The cylindrical cones are some of the largest of all cycad cones, rivaled only by Encephalartos transvenosus. The male cones can reach seventy five centimetres long and the female cones ninety centimetres, weighing up to forty five kilograms.