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Zamia

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Zamia
American genus of cycad; causes incoordination, due to degeneration of the spinal cord, and hepatic necrosis. The toxin is identified as a cycad glycoside. Includes Z. integrifolia (Z. floridana), Z. portoricensis, Z. pujilla, Z. pumila (Z. debilis, Z. latifoliata, Z. silvicola, Z. umbrosa). Called also coonties, Florida arrowroots, marangvey, derriengue, guayiga.

zamia

zamia fern
boweniaspectabilis.
zamia staggers
irreversible posterior paralysis in cattle in Australia; caused by poisoning by cycads; lesions present in the proprioceptive pathways in the white matter of the spinal cord.


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In the not very thick forest steppes, which covered lower parts of mountains, there were mainly pines, palms and numerous species of oak, both evergreen and with falling leaves; other trees grew there as well: beeches, chestnuts, maples, cycads from the genus Zamia ; shrubs, such as the magnolia, holly and some Laurel family ( Lauraceae ) plants; grasses dominated the undergrowth.
William Bartram discovered the evolutionary, primitive Zamia palm, today called, Zamia pumila growing near Cape Canaveral, Florida, in 1773, reporting that it "grows in the open pine forests in tufts or clumps, a large conical strobile disclosing its large coral red fruit, which appears singularly beautiful amidst the deep green fern-like pinnated leaves.
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