Dioon merolae

This species grows in Oaxaca and Chiapas, Mexico over a range of habitats. In Florida, it has been an uncommon landscape plant for many years. It is incredibly slow-growing with some landscape plants at 50 years of age having only 12-18’ of trunk. With full sun and some supplemental water and nutrition plants grow much faster. New growth is usually blue and very ornamental with tomentum.