Dioon merolae Yellow/Gold Flowering Plants and South Carolina

and South Carolina

Alongside the leaf stalk is a large pitcher-like spathe (usually green or purple-and-white striped) with a large hood that ends in a long dangling thread

and I'd be willing to bet that any nursery offering plants under that name (other than small hellebore specialist)

Carex howei can be found naturally in boggy meadows and swamp forest stream banks

since it helps keep the ground cool and the new growth from sprouting too early

Dioon merolae Yellow/Gold Flowering Plants and South CarolinaThe 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