Lepidozamia peroffskyana
A tall, glossy-leaved cycad of the damp forests of south-east Queensland and north-east New South Wales, growing in scattered groups on steep slopes at rainforest edges and in moist eucalypt forest. It wants warm humid summers, mild dry winters and semi-shade, and is slow but long-lived.
Where it grows wild
Steep slopes in damp open eucalypt forest and along rainforest margins, usually in small scattered colonies under a broken canopy.
Recorded from about 25 to 670 m (median 500 m); published range runs from near sea level to about 1,000 m.
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