Zamia

It is actually a zamia palm, in flower...taken down along the southern coast of W.A. ❋ Glenda Larke (2008)

Grubs are got out of the gum – tree into which they eat their way, as also out of the roots of the mimosa, the leaves of the zamia, the trunk of the xanthorra, and a variety of other plants and shrubs. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Nunc petit, cum pollicetur; inhiat aurum ut devoret. altera manu fert lapidem, panem ostentat altera. nemini credo qui large blandust dives pauperi ubi manum inicit benigne, ibi onerat aliqua zamia ego istos novi polypos, qui ubi quidquid tetigerunt tenent. ❋ Titus Maccius Plautus (1919)

On passing the last, the party emerged on to poorly grassed, desolate-looking sandstone ridges, covered with grass-tree and zamia. ❋ Frank Jardine (1880)

Grubs are got out of the gum-tree into which they eat their way, as also out of the roots of the mimosa, the leaves of the zamia, the trunk of the xanthorra, and a variety of other plants and shrubs. ❋ Edward John Eyre (1858)

Juan Fernandez, and resembling the _zamia_ of Australia. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

They had arrived at a thick belt of forest, consisting of acacias and evergreen shrubs, and trees of the strelitzia, zamia, and speckboom, when their ears were assailed by the sound of breaking branches, and the unmistakable rushing of some large animals through the thicket. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

All the rest was mere "bush," -- a thorny jungle of mimosas, euphorbias, arborescent aloes, strelitzias, and the horrid zamia plants, beautiful enough to the eye, but of no utility whatever in the building of a house. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

Rare forms of vegetation were around or near at hand: the arborescent aloes, with their tall flower-spikes of coral red, and euphorbias of many shapes; and _zamia_, with its palm-like fronds; and the soft-leaved ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

{39} We may observe exactly the same in Plautus: a multitude of Greek words are used by him, which the Latin language did not want, and therefore refused to take up; thus ‘clepta’, ‘zamia’ (ζημία), ❋ Richard Chenevix Trench (1846)

One Response to “Banks Dragging Their Feet In Getting Stimulus Loans To Small Businesses” zamia Says: ❋ Unknown (2009)

June 2nd, 2009 at 5: 42 pm zamia Says: nah, don’t tax it so we can maintain roads send the $$ to Saudia Arabia and Kuwait so they can build indoor ski slopes … they’re deprived, they have no natural ones ❋ Unknown (2009)

A large number of broad-leaved evergreen shrubs thrive in the South, such as: fetter bush, _Andromeda floribunda_ (A); some of the palms, as palmettoes (A) and chamærops; cycas and zamia (A) far South; _Abelia grandiflora; _ strawberry tree, _Arbutus Unedo; _ ardisias and aucubas, both grown under glass in the North; azaleas and rhododendrons (not only ❋ Unknown (1906)