This large palm-like cycad has a darkish trunk with persistent leaf bases and has a dense crown of many spreading glossy dark green divided fronds with linear leaflets. It produces greenish male and ovoid female cones on separate plants during summer.

Hardiness zones 9 to 11

Macrozamia johnsonii is naturally found in Australia growing in a restricted region in the Dalmorton district in northern New South Wales commonly in the understory of wet or dry sclerophyll forest, normally on steeply sloping land on the Great Dividing Range.

It prefers a semi-shaded to sunny protected humid position and grows in deep well drained, poor shallow sandy-stony soil to sandy loam that is tending acidic. It is drought, light frost and low intensity fire tolerant. 

This Pineapple Palm is grown for its foliage and his tropical appearance. It is planted on shaded embankments or as a specimen in parks and gardens around a water features for a tropical effect. It is also grown in tubs and planter boxes when young and is used in commercial landscapes. It is suitable coastal and low-mountain regions and establishes in 4-6 years and is very long-lived. This cycad is also planted in the understory of forest settings and is not commonly cultivated as an ornamental and may be difficult to obtain requiring a specialist nursery. ID 3759

Macrozamia (mak-ro-ZAIM-ee-a)  johnsonii (jon-so-NEE-eye)

Note:
Macrozamia johnsoniiis closely related to Macrozamia moorei differing by being shorter and having flat glossy fronds. It is the largest cycad in New South Wales.

Zamiaceae (ZAH-mee-AY-see-ee)
Zamias, Cycads Family