The cycad, Zamia furfuracea is an attractive tropical effect plant.
It has a cylindrical trunk that is partly underground and the leaves are compound with stiff, olive green, lance shaped leaflets that have reddish hairs on their surface.
It will produces male and female cones on separate plants. The female cone are large and a orange-brown colour and contain red seeds. The male cones are smaller, a duller colour and grow in clusters, these produce the pollen. The cones are produced in summer/