Dioon merolae Clumping Bamboo resembling shredded mop heads

resembling shredded mop heads

a 4' tall bloom stalk will rocket forth with thousands of tiny white flowers

'Otome Giboshi Fukurin' was brought into the US from Kai Ryo En Nursery in Japan by our friend Hans Hansen

of Columbia

but fast-offsetting clump is topped with hundreds of white

Dioon merolae Clumping Bamboo resembling shredded mop headsThe endangered Mexican cycad Dioon merolae has been a nice surprise in our winter hardiness trials, surviving 7 degrees F so far. This was quite a surprise since it hails from the more southern provinces of Chiapas and Oaxaca where it can be found on steep sandstone cliffs near waterways in pine oak forests. Dioon merolae, named in 1981 after Italian botanist Aldo Merole, forms a slow growing solitary specimen with 3' long, stiff, upright, green