Zamioculcas zamiifolia

Z Z Plant

Scientific name: Zamioculcas zamiifolia 

Family : Araceae

It is a herbaceous perennial growing to 45–60 centimetres tall, from a stout underground, succulent rhizome. 

It is normally evergreen, but becomes deciduous during drought, surviving drought due to the large potato-like rhizome that stores water until rainfall resumes.

 The leaves are pinnate, 40–60 cm (16–24 in) long, with 6–8 pairs of leaflets 7–15 cm (3–6 in) long; they are smooth, shiny, and dark green. 

The stems of these pinnate leaves are thickened at the bottom.

The flowers are produced in a small bright yellow to brown or bronze spadix 5–7 cm (2–3 in) long, partly hidden among the leaf bases; flowering is from mid summer to early autumn.

Zamioculcas zamiifolia contains an unusually high water contents of leaves (91%) and petioles (95%)and has an individual leaf longevity of at least six months, which may be the reason it can survive extremely well under interior low light levels for four months without water.