Cycad cones and flushes

[buccaneers37]

Zamia kickxii

[buccaneers37]

Nice little flush on one of my dwarf horridus.

[5150cycad]

7 minutes ago, buccaneers37 said:

Nice little flush on one of my dwarf horridus.

 Nice selection of cycads 

[buccaneers37]

7 minutes ago, 5150cycad said:

 Nice selection of cycads 

Thank you!

[buccaneers37]

And the last one for the day, Zamia inermis female cone.

 

I love this time of year!

[Tracy]

On 6/3/2017, 9:02:40, buccaneers37 said:

I love this time of year!

It is a busy time for Cycads, that is for sure!

Cycas tropophylla x micholitzii pushing something.

[TexasColdHardyPalms]

That's a female cone for sure

[Tracy]

On 6/3/2017, 7:45:32, buccaneers37 said:

A nice set of males cones on my Ceratozamia miqueliana. Alas, no female in sight! Note: The finger is for scale

Would love to see the leaves on this Ceratozamia.  I love the flushes on so many of the Ceratozamias because they are often quite colorful.  One of my C latifolia hybrids is flushing a colorful bronze set of leaves right now.

[Tracy]

My wife likes glossy green leaves though.  So she likes this Encephalartos natalensis x arenarius, which never fails to supply plenty of glossy new leaflets this time of year (mid-f;lush).

[GeneAZ]

Encephalartos latifrons "Green Hills" fresh leaves:

 

 

Mega E. lehmanii with some new and old leaves, just blue-ing up:

 

 

I bought this as a 6-inch tuber in the '80s, now it's got 24" of clear trunk.  E. lebomboensis or senticosus.

[5150cycad]

11 hours ago, GeneAZ said:

Encephalartos latifrons "Green Hills" fresh leaves:

 

 

Mega E. lehmanii with some new and old leaves, just blue-ing up:

 

 

I bought this as a 6-inch tuber in the '80s, now it's got 24" of clear trunk.  E. lebomboensis or senticosus.

[5150cycad]

3 minutes ago, 5150cycad said:

11 hours ago, GeneAZ said:

Encephalartos latifrons "Green Hills" fresh leaves:

 

 

Mega E. lehmanii with some new and old leaves, just blue-ing up:

 

 

I bought this as a 6-inch tuber in the '80s, now it's got 24" of clear trunk.  E. lebomboensis or senticosus.

Great looking cycads. Perfectly grown. 

[Tracy]

On 6/13/2017, 7:22:16, GeneAZ said:

E. lehmanii with some new and old leaves, just blue-ing up

I love the color of the flushes on Encephalartos lehmanii.  Yours is jumbo size!  I got mine freshly planted up from a liner into a tree pot, and finally got it in the ground a couple of years ago now, but it will be a long time before it reaches the size of yours.

[5150cycad]

Encephalartos Arenarius

Edited June 23, 2017 by 5150cycad
Wrong plant

[5150cycad]

Dioon Merolae

[5150cycad]

Encephalartos Horridus x Woodii Hybrid

[Palm Tree Jim]

11 hours ago, 5150cycad said:

Encephalartos Horridus x Woodii Hybrid

This is a great plant!!

[Josh-O]

On 6/22/2017, 11:46:00, 5150cycad said:

Encephalartos Horridus x Woodii Hybrid

I like this cycad so much I now have 2 of them

[Tracy]

On 6/22/2017, 11:46:00, 5150cycad said:

Encephalartos Horridus x Woodii Hybrid

Nice looking E horridus x woodii.  Mine is a little different, probably due to mine being a Steytlerville horridus x woodii.  I haven't seen any of this cross which inherited the horridus blue though.  Perhaps the next generation, crossing with a trispinosis or lehmannii might get some blue in there?

[5150cycad]

27 minutes ago, Tracy said:

Nice looking E horridus x woodii.  Mine is a little different, probably due to mine being a Steytlerville horridus x woodii.  I haven't seen any of this cross which inherited the horridus blue though.  Perhaps the next generation, crossing with a trispinosis or lehmannii might get some blue in there?

Thanks Tracy. Definitely one of my favorite cycads in my garden. Pretty fast grower as well. I have noticed that there is a ton of variation in this hybrid. They all seem to look quite different. It amazes me that none of the blue genes from the horridus are apparent in the hybrid since most hybrids with horridus usually always carry a little bit of that blue gene. I also love the waxy dark green look of the leaves along with the stacked and spined look from both the horridus and woodii. I hope someone eventually does an f2 variation of the horridus x woodii (woodii) similar to the natalensis x woodii (f2) and the transvenosus x woodii (f2). I have both of those hybrids and they looking very woodii early on. I would also like to see a horridus x woodii back crossed with a horridus to see if any of the blue genes take. Don't you have the Arenarius x woodii cross? I really want to get one of those hybrids. I believe I saw you post a picture of one of these before. 

 

Josh-O, glad to see you got bit by the cycad bug. I can't imagine what your place looks like now with cycads all around. I still need to make a trip out there to check it out. 

 

[Palm Tree Jim]

3 hours ago, 5150cycad said:

Thanks Tracy. Definitely one of my favorite cycads in my garden. Pretty fast grower as well. I have noticed that there is a ton of variation in this hybrid. They all seem to look quite different. It amazes me that none of the blue genes from the horridus are apparent in the hybrid since most hybrids with horridus usually always carry a little bit of that blue gene. I also love the waxy dark green look of the leaves along with the stacked and spined look from both the horridus and woodii. I hope someone eventually does an f2 variation of the horridus x woodii (woodii) similar to the natalensis x woodii (f2) and the transvenosus x woodii (f2). I have both of those hybrids and they looking very woodii early on. I would also like to see a horridus x woodii back crossed with a horridus to see if any of the blue genes take. Don't you have the Arenarius x woodii cross? I really want to get one of those hybrids. I believe I saw you post a picture of one of these before. 

 

Josh-O, glad to see you got bit by the cycad bug. I can't imagine what your place looks like now with cycads all around. I still need to make a trip out there to check it out. 

 

Good points......

My nat x woodii F2 to date does carry alot of woodii traits so far. Only time will tell with it.

[5150cycad]

11 minutes ago, Palm Tree Jim said:

Good points......

My nat x woodii F2 to date does carry alot of woodii traits so far. Only time will tell with it.

Thanks Jim. You should post some pictures of your horridus x woodii. If I recall yours just finished flushing out its first set of leaves since planting. It's cool seeing all of the different variations. 

[Tracy]

22 minutes ago, 5150cycad said:

You should post some pictures of your horridus x woodii.

 

38 minutes ago, Palm Tree Jim said:

My nat x woodii F2 to date does carry alot of woodii traits so far

I would enjoy seeing both of Jim's woodii hybrids, the h x w and the (n x w) x w .  Jim, you have two requests now!

 

3 hours ago, 5150cycad said:

Don't you have the Arenarius x woodii cross? I really want to get one of those hybrids. I believe I saw you post a picture of one of these before. 

Yes, I do have the E arenarius x woodii which I have posted previously.  The pup just did a 10 leaf flush, but I'm still waiting for the next flush on the main caudex.  I thought it was going to pop over a month ago, but I'm sure it will be another huge flush when it finally does, so I'll snap a couple of photos at that time.

[5150cycad]

9 hours ago, Tracy said:

 

I would enjoy seeing both of Jim's woodii hybrids, the h x w and the (n x w) x w .  Jim, you have two requests now!

 

Yes, I do have the E arenarius x woodii which I have posted previously.  The pup just did a 10 leaf flush, but I'm still waiting for the next flush on the main caudex.  I thought it was going to pop over a month ago, but I'm sure it will be another huge flush when it finally does, so I'll snap a couple of photos at that time.

The pup just did a 10 leaf flush? That must be a pretty good sized pup. Can wait to see pictures of the main caudex flushing. The Arenarius x woodii hybrid is at the top of my wish list along with encephalartos cupidus. Here is a picture of my tranvenosus x woodii (f2). I can wait to see what this one will look like in another 10 years. 

[annafl]

Not anything fancy or unusual like you guys have, but our Encephalartos gratus surprised us with a simultaneous flush and five cones.  It's never had that many before.

[Palm Tree Jim]

17 hours ago, Tracy said:

 

I would enjoy seeing both of Jim's woodii hybrids, the h x w and the (n x w) x w .  Jim, you have two requests now!

 

Yes, I do have the E arenarius x woodii which I have posted previously.  The pup just did a 10 leaf flush, but I'm still waiting for the next flush on the main caudex.  I thought it was going to pop over a month ago, but I'm sure it will be another huge flush when it finally does, so I'll snap a couple of photos at that time.

Ok then....I will get those pictures this week!

[5150cycad]

1 hour ago, annafl said:

Not anything fancy or unusual like you guys have, but our Encephalartos gratus surprised us with a simultaneous flush and five cones.  It's never had that many before.

Ana,

Your gratus looks amazing, what a nice specimen. Some of my favorite cycads in my garden are the more common species (for instance longifolius). It's hard to pick favorites. hard to pick still get excited when my sagos flush new leaves. Growth on any species of encephalartos or cycas species is exciting. 

[TexasColdHardyPalms]

Encephalartos Ituriensis Male in tampa

[TexasColdHardyPalms]

Encephalartos Bulbalinus

[TexasColdHardyPalms]

Also listed as bulbalinus but a female. The cones were a much different color than the males.

[TexasColdHardyPalms]

Encephalartos Conncinus

[TexasColdHardyPalms]

Lepidozamia hopei.

[TexasColdHardyPalms]

I love the muliticone look. Here is a kisambo in mid flush nonetheless.  

[TexasColdHardyPalms]

Ceratozamia robusta 

[5150cycad]

13 hours ago, TexasColdHardyPalms said:

I love the muliticone look. Here is a kisambo in mid flush nonetheless.  

That is some serious cone action. It amazes me how much growth cycads can put out in a short period of time. I love it when they cone and flush at the same time. 

[annafl]

1 hour ago, 5150cycad said:

That is some serious cone action. It amazes me how much growth cycads can put out in a short period of time. I love it when they cone and flush at the same time. 

Mine flushed in May and just put out its first cone ever!  Finally!  Nothing like yours, but give it another couple of years.  I was thrilled to have just one!

[Dr Sha]

I just planted this Cycas revoluta pup April 12

[Tracy]

On 6/30/2017, 5:16:42, Dr Sha said:

 

I just planted this Cycas revoluta pup April 12

 

Welcome to the forum Dr Sha!  Looks like you will be getting your first flush on your C revoluta.  Where in Central America are you?

[Tracy]

My Encephalartos turneri has flushed with the classic cupped leaflets.  I love the fuzz on the newly flushed rachis too.

[5150cycad]

Nice looking Turneri Tracy. I really like the classic boat shape cupping of the leaflets. Do you know if Turneri are considered rare? I do know that I don't see them for sale very often. I personally think turneri is one of the most attractive green encephalartos species. I used to have a pretty good sized turneri but one day it decided to croak on me. The plant looked pretty neglected when I bought it but thought it would be fine. I was wrong. The plant flushed for me one time after planting it but ended up croaking later that winter