The Cardboard Palm Tree is beautiful when used as a potted palm tree. The Cardboard Palm Tree is easy to grow just like the Sago Palm Tree, which it resembles. The Zamia Palm tree prefers partial shade with dry slightly wet soils. For shady or sunny spots the Cardboard Palm Tree grows well, is drought resistant and salt water tolerant. The Zamia (Cardboard) Palm Tree is a container plant that grows well as specimen or accent plants.
The Zamia Palm tree is very easy to grow as a landscape plant in the deep south or excellent and simple to grow indoors in cold climates as a potted plant. Up to four feet tall. The shade of palm trees is a perfect location for growing the Zamia Palm plant. The Zamia Palm Tree grows very low to the ground and has wide glossy leaves. The Cardboard palm tree leaves are thick and dark green, similar in form to fern fronds.