Cultivar · genus Zamioculcas
Chameleon
Zamioculcas zamiifolia · ‘Chameleon’
Guide
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No cultivar-specific guide yet
Until someone writes one, this cultivar follows the Zamioculcas zamiifolia care below. If you grow ‘Chameleon’, a few honest paragraphs would give it its own voice.
Care recipe
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Care notes reviewed by Horta
- Light
- ai:claude-code
- Humidity
- ai:claude-code
Bright, indirect
≈ every 28 days
Low — average room
15–26 °C
Gritty, free-draining mix — cactus mix cut with perlite
propagation prohibited on this variety (patented)
Light feed once or twice a season — easily overfed
Slow
Inconspicuous spadix at the base; rare indoors
Toxic to cats & dogs
Insoluble calcium oxalates — oral irritation, drooling, vomiting. This is where toxicity lives: every cultivar inherits it and none can override it.
Reference images
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PrimarySources: ai:claude-code · ASPCA
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