Show off your cycads here!!

[Gbarce]

Folks in another post requested me to show my cycads and I am happy to oblige but the problem is I don't really have any exceptional specimens to show off.

So I'd like to start this thread for others to post and show off their cycads - Encephalartoses, Dioons, Cycases, Zamias and Macrozamias ---etc.... whatever it is , if its a cycad please post it here.

I know you palmaholics in So Cal have lots of cycads too --- so show them off!!!

THis is my Encephalartos trispinosus ( but is probably a hybrid of some sort). Got this last year and is my first Encephalartos-- still learning how to grow these.

Second picture is a Dioon Spinulosum that I planted in teh ground. Only flushed 2 leaves at a time at this point.

[Gbarce]

Cycas petraea that just had a new flush of leaves. Teh caudex is about 2.5 inches across and at this point she is flushing 3 leaves at a time.

Ths runt is a 'silver' Cycas from thailand. Is this the siamensis?? THis was attacked by Guinea Fowl about a year and a half ago and went dormant-- this is the first time it has shown any sign of life since then. Caudex is pretty big already -- about 4 inches in diameter and 6 inches tall but there are only 2 leaves coming out.

[Gbarce]

Cycas cairnsiana. This also went dormant for a very long time - may be 2 years. The caudex (at leas the part that I can see ) is about 2.5inches across. It flushed 3 leaves that are pretty ling with a very long petiole. I thought that the leaves would be more dense with leaflets by now. Still looks a bit scrawny and the leaves tend to be droopy.

Dioon edule - flushing 6 new leaves, the caudex is nice and round and about 5 inches across. leaves are still soft and just hardening. I was hoping the leaves would be bluse but I am told that this is teh 'edule' variety which has green leaves.

[Gbarce]

Cycas Debaoensis - The leaves of this cycad is really awesome. I can't wait for them to get 10 feet long each!! I wonder how many years that will take? THese are just beginning to get plumose with the leaflets splitting several times now. Still at the 1 leaf per flush stage though.

Definitely one of my favorite cycads

[Gbarce]

Bird's eye view

[freakypalmguy]

Love those debaoensis Gene. I would bet that the next time your cairnsiana flushes, it will be more full.

I bought ten seeds last year of Cycas revoluta X Cycas debaoensis. Three have germinated so far. I hope they take on a bit more of the debaoensis look, but with the revoluta mom, I think they will go the other way. The leaflets are more widely spaced than regular revolutas and the individual leaflets are wider also. I look forward to seeing what this one grows to look like.

Here is a couple shots of them. They are still youngins.

[freakypalmguy]

Two Cycas taitungensis. They are both on the third flush of the season. Very fast growers.

Closer shot of the flush

[freakypalmguy]

One of my largest, Dioon edule

[Gbarce]

THat dioon edule is gorgeous. Looks like they have some waxy cover and are a bluish - just love blueish cycads.

Your debaoensis cross does look more like the revoluta parent rather than the debaoensis - but hey they are still young. I bet when they hit puberty some of the Debaoensis genes will start kicking in. Even just a slight variation from the typical Revoluta should give you a pretty interesting plant. Its a good thing you even got 3 seeds to germinate in the first place - lots of seeds turn out to be infertile.

Do the hybrids grow faster and more robust? I read that hybrids often are more vigorous. Keep us posted on the development of this seedlings. I am curious as to how they will look when they grow up

[freakypalmguy]

I have a few other hybrid cycads but I'm not sure if they are showing any difference in growth rate as of yet. Maybe as they get get bigger they will.

Encephalartos arenarius X horridus

[freakypalmguy]

Here is Encephalartos horridus X woodii

[freakypalmguy]

E. natalensis X horridus

[freakypalmguy]

E. lehmanii

[freakypalmguy]

I know there are more cycad junkies on this board. Let's see them. Len, BS, TropicalB, Bruce, Randy, Pogo, etc...and even Paul (I think even he has a cycad or two and has a closet love for them )

Here is a shot of Encephalartos ferox var. big curly. It is a closeup of the leaflet detail. All the leaflets on this plant are tubular like these.

[LJG]

Matt, I have the 'taco variety' too of Encephalartos ferox. It is a nice looking plant.

I was just over at Dwains and picked up a Ceratozamia whitelockiana, zeragozae and a parazamia - Macrozamia stenomera. Some good loot.

[BS Man about Palms]

I may show some..but maybe without names?

[freakypalmguy]

Matt, I have the 'taco variety' too of Encephalartos ferox. It is a nice looking plant.

I was just over at Dwains and picked up a Ceratozamia whitelockiana, zeragozae and a parazamia - Macrozamia stenomera. Some good loot.

Pull out the Kodac mister. You have got some killer cycads.

[freakypalmguy]

I forgot about this hybrid, E. natalensis X woodii

[freakypalmguy]

I may show some..but maybe without names?

Names are not needed. We just need some cycads with tasty ranch hands for this thread

[aussiearoids]

I got a few supposed Cycas micholitzii that turned out to be something else , leaves were 4-5m on parent plant .

It could be a hybrid or bifida ... here is the first bifid leaf

[LJG]

Michael, 5 meters? As in 15 feet tall? Dang. That has to be bifida. Micholitzii won't get that big.

[DippyD]

here is a few of mine...

trispinosus..

[DippyD]

a little natalensis..

[DippyD]

a pretty awsome lehmanii....deff a eye catcher!

[DippyD]

a longifulius...supposed to be a blue one but we will see with its next flush...

[aussiearoids]

hardened off a bit ..

[aussiearoids]

some nice little Zamia splendens seedlings I have growing .. I know thats not the right name , but a few to many pre-Xmas drinks has me all lazy ... cannot find the picture of the parent plants of the Cycas bifida , but they are awesome all folded up against the roof of a very large shadehouse . they came in as deboaensis many years ago .

[calyptrocalyx&licuala freck]

some nice little Zamia splendens seedlings I have growing .. I know thats not the right name , but a few to many pre-Xmas drinks has me all lazy ... cannot find the picture of the parent plants of the Cycas bifida , but they are awesome all folded up against the roof of a very large shadehouse . they came in as deboaensis many years ago .

Hi Guys,

Hey Michael are those babies from the seed from me.

they look good dude...............

Merry Christmas man, and to everyone else as well

take care all.

Cheers all, Mikey..

[aussiearoids]

dude they sure are your seeds , jumping outa the pot now , that pic was only a few weeks after planting , and only a few sprouts , but such a cool dark new leaf . Lots more sprouts now . Heres a pic of Mikeys mother plant .

And a neurophyllidia with brom at Whyanbeel

[freakypalmguy]

Nice plants everyone. The more I see of Zamia's, the more I am intrigued by them.

[Jeff in St Pete]

This is not my plant, but it is my favorite Zamia photo.

In habitat on the Osa Peninsula - photo taken in August 2008.

[BS Man about Palms]

Ok- I'll post a lot of them. No names except privately to regular posters.

[BS Man about Palms]

With the recent rains and cold, what little weeding progress I made is now gone...

[BS Man about Palms]

more..

[BS Man about Palms]

I thinks its a good thing my neighbors are retired and or work from their home. The guy across the street is an insomniac and is up with the garage is open almost all night. Then a neighbor with dogs help too!

[BS Man about Palms]

Its actually funny how well my neighbors watch my place. Ask Shon or Jeff from Trabuco canyon how many times I've called them while they're at my place because a neighbor called me! I am very lucky for this "neighbor hood watch", but the rarer stuff is still well hidden and locked up.

[BS Man about Palms]

I just reread Genes first post. Sorry, most of these are NOT specimens.

[BS Man about Palms]

In the Encephalartos pic, I like the Bigger E. lehmanii shows the smaller leaves from when it flushes in winter, and I do quite like the Enceph. on its right as it is a "runt" lehmanii and has teeny tiny little leaves. I started to weed it some for the photo, but it hurt me...

[BS Man about Palms]

Well, over halfway done.

[BS Man about Palms]

In the green house now, not sure if they are much faster here...probably a little bit.