Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Looking to attract a Atala hairstreak, 1 by artcons

artcons wrote:
Well, the plot thickens (a little pun there since the coonties were originally harvested for their starch.)
It turns out the plants I have been growing for the last six months (coonties) are not really coonties at all. They are Cardboard Palms Zamia furfuracea.
I ordered coonties from a Amy's last week and got them in last night. I opened them this morning and low and behold, her plants are correct and mine are wrong. But as I noted above, the plot thickens.
It turns out these plants are known as different plants depending on who's source you are reading. Some say there is only one truly Zamia in Florida, Zamia pumila. Others say there are lots of varieties.
I currently have three varieties in my yard.
I just hope the Atala I am looking to lure here is interested in one of my three.
The picture is of the one that came in the mail last night. It's a Zamia pumila. I won't put it in the ground until it makes a new frond.
Art