Cycad cones and flushes

[Brad-Tampa]

All right, great thread. I'll jump in. All pictures from the last month or so:

Ceratozamia sp. "Tamazunchale- green emergent"

male cone

[Brad-Tampa]

Cz. migueliana

D. merolae

Ceratozamia sp. "Presa Miguel Alamand" one month ago

[Brad-Tampa]

Cz. "Presa Miguel Alamand" recent picture

male cone

female

[Brad-Tampa]

E.kisambo

[Brad-Tampa]

Cz. norstogii

male cone

[Brad-Tampa]

Z. splendens

Zamia sp. (Jody?)

[Brad-Tampa]

Cz. microstrobilia leaf coloration

more color: E. natalensis, trispinosus, lehmanii and Serenoa

Cz. robusta "Guatemala"

[Brad-Tampa]

Cz. robusta "Guatemala" female cones

Cz. mexicana "fine leaf"

and finally its male cone

[Urban Rainforest]

Brad, Those Cerats are AWESOME . Nice photography as well! I have a E. Kisambo throwing 3 cones right now also.

Stevo

[Dave H]

Awesome collection Brad..! Lots of Ceratozamia's... Very cool!

[tropicalb]

NICE plants!

Ceratozamia are so overlooked IMHO....

[freakypalmguy]

Very nice Brad.

[Dave H]

My baby 3" caudex Cycas Angulata in flush....

C. Angulata

[Dave H]

And one more...

Cycas Angulata

[Brad-Tampa]

Thanks for the comments, how about a few more recent pics.

Cz. sp. " red-back Molongo"

The last of three to cone, all males unfortunately

Z. vazquezii

[Brad-Tampa]

E. arenarius

Cz. sp. "Tamazunchale- brown emergent"

male cone

[Brad-Tampa]

E. concinnus

Another Encephalartos throwing a flush

close up

[Brad-Tampa]

Encephalartos sp.?

Another

And finally a E. hildebrandtii

[freakypalmguy]

Excellent Cycads Brad, thanks for sharing the pics. Pic one in post 218 could be Encephalartos villosus.

[Peter]

Really great Cerats Brad!

[GeneAZ]

Here's a really neat E. horridus dwarf leafing.

[GeneAZ]

A little closer now.

[GeneAZ]

Lastly, they're all expanded now, but the blue is yet to appear.

[GeneAZ]

Here's a Florida Zamia supposedly the Crystal River form.

[GeneAZ]

You won't believe how great this thing finishes up!

And a close-up.

Gene

[tropicalb]

nice pics gene....

i'll betcha those blue encephalartos feel right at home in that AZ heat!

[freakypalmguy]

Well here is a bit more excitement (at least for me ) going on at my house. Mostly seedlings but I thought some were interesting. Most of you guys are pulling out the wide angle lens to get pics of your Cycads and here I am with the macro, I'm feeling a little inadequate

E. eugene maraisii

E. (chimanimaniensis X munchii) X munchii

E. aemulens

M. diplomera

[freakypalmguy]

a couple more

D. spinulosum

D. merolae progress

C. guizhouensis X revoluta progress

E. natalensis "Vryheid" progress

[Dave H]

Progress shot of my baby 3" caudex Cycas Angulata in flush....

C. Angulata

[yachtingone]

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ttachment=60167:003.JPG] First pic unknown, 2nd E. ituriensis, 3rd & 4th E. horridus X Woodii

[edbrown_III]

to keep the thread going heres a few photos of C. hainanensis with leafs emerging. I have it planted as a understory up in Jacksonville

Great photos Brad and others!

Best regarrds

[freakypalmguy]

Here is a little bit more activity going on in my garden.

E. ferox curly leaf form

E. altensteinii

C. thoursaii

And here is a monumental event (at least for me). This E. trispinosus has not flushed in 2.5 years since being purchased. I was a bit worried.

[Gbarce]

Dioon Spinulosum in the back and Dioon Edules in the front.

The Spinulosum flushed earlier and has lost most of the fuzzy tomentum. The edule is just starting.

Its a big step for the D. edule. It looks like he will be flushing with 10 leaves this time. The last flush only had 6 leaves. The last time this put out leaves was Christmasn time so its a flush about every 6 months.

[fdrc65]

Some of my flush:

8 new leaves of Encephalartos friderici-guilielmi

2 new leaves of lepidozamia peroffskyana

continue

[fdrc65]

1 new leaf of ceratozamia latifolia (?)

10 new leaves of Dioon Edule

bye

[Urban Rainforest]

Federico, Those Cycads are looking sweet and grown to perfection in Italy!

Stevo

[Urban Rainforest]

Well this has definately been a good year so far for my Cycads with over 90% either flushing or coning already! Here is a pick of the very first Cycad that I ever bought. It is an Encephalartos Gratus I purchased as a 2 leaf seedling about 14 years ago. Here it is with it's new flush.

Stevo

[Urban Rainforest]

Here is a pic from across the pool. I just planted the brom in front of it. Pogo gave me a pup of this brom and it should turn red and orange now that I have it in the sun.

[Urban Rainforest]

Here is a 6" caudex Horridus pup flushing. The main caudex is about 10" and is starting to flush now as well along with several other pups.

[Urban Rainforest]

Last but not least is my coning E. Kisambo . Could this be a female What say ye experts .

Stevo