Sign in Start free
Species library › Zamia › Zamia fairchildiana
Other Partly documented

Zamia fairchildiana

A short-trunked, prickly-stalked rainforest cycad from southern Costa Rica and western Panama, abundant around Golfo Dulce. It grows in shaded, very wet lowland and premontane forest, so it wants warm, even temperatures, high humidity, moderate light and a moist but free-draining mix.

Zamia fairchildiana
Photo: Franz Xaver, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
At home, aim for
Day Warm-growingTargets in Plantistry
Night Close to the dayTargets in Plantistry
Humidity Ordinary room humidityBand in Plantistry
Light Dappled lightDLI and PPFD in Plantistry
Expects a seasonal restGrows in the ground

Where it grows wild

Rainforest understory and forest edges in very wet lowland to premontane forest; plants cone even in shade.

GBIF records run from 0 to 1,900 m (median 343 m), most below about 800 m.

Costa RicaPanamá

🔒 Growing it like that

The wild conditions above, turned into targets for a shelf, a tent or a greenhouse. The full profile has:

✓ Day and night temperature targets, and the limits it tolerates
✓ Humidity band, and how to hold it
✓ Light as DLI and PPFD for a grow light
✓ Wet and dry seasons, and whether to rest it
✓ Substrate and airflow
✓ A step-by-step setup to grow it like the wild

Grow Zamia fairchildiana? Add it to a free garden and its full profile opens. Pro opens all 38,374 profiles in the library, plants and fungi.

Start free Sign in

More Zamia

Zamia integrifolia Zamia acuminata Zamia boliviana Zamia elegantissima Zamia encephalartoides Zamia erosa Zamia hamannii Zamia inermis Zamia loddigesii Zamia pseudoparasitica Zamia pygmaea Zamia skinneri All 86 →

Profiles are drafts built from measured range and climate and from published sources; each section carries its own confidence in the app. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, used under its CC BY-SA 3.0 licence, unmodified.