Editing Macrozamia douglasii (section)

===Cultivation: ===
The seed germinates well, even lying beneath the parent.
Initial growth is single fronded with one or two more in
second year up to five years, when the crown forms and
hardens. At this stage the growth accelerates if the plant is
treated as a container plant.

''Macrozamia douglasii'' is variable in leaf colour. Plants
generally are blue-grey in foliage, but seedling leaf colour
is dark green.
The gender of these plants is not the mystery it is
sometimes stated. In more mature plants it is easy to pick
the females because of the little seedlings growing close to
the caudex around them.

Quite obviously as in all our ''Macrozamia'', these plants
are a source of food supply to the marsupials on Fraser
Island. The toxins in the fruit causing no apparent
discomfort to the creature.