Ceratozamia whitelockiana
An endangered Oaxacan cycad known from only two subpopulations in the Sierra Madre de Oaxaca. It has a short trunk and arching leaves up to 2.5 m long. Grow it as a shade-loving understory cycad, warm and humid in summer and cooler and drier in winter.
Where it grows wild
It grows in humid forest on the Gulf-facing slopes of the Sierra Madre de Oaxaca. The literature gives little habitat detail. As with other Ceratozamia, it likely grows in shaded understory on steep, well-drained slopes.
Records span 505–2158 m, with a median of about 690 m.
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