Cycads   Dioon tomasellii

Distribution & Habitat: Mountainous pine forests of Western Mexico, between 950 and 1100m. The variety sonorense is found in Sonora, and northern Sinaloa. Description: A small to medium sized cyacd to about 1m tall, with obliquely erect leaves to about 2m long. Leaves are light-green, and flat in cross-section. The variety sonorense has leaflets inserted onto the rhachis at an acute angle. Culture: Sunny, well drained position, in the tropics or sub-tropics. Figure 2. D. tomasellii var sonorense .

Figure 1. D. tomasellii leaf detail.

Figure 3. D. tomasellii at Quail Gardens.

Reference:	Cycads Of The World, David Jones
Contributed by:	Colin Wilson (Figure 1,2&3)

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