Cycads in the backyard

[Gileno Machado]

Weekends of hard work here, trying to organize the cycads...

Please show yours too.

Cycas debaoensis:

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Encephalartos hildebrandtii (3), E. natalensis, Dioon spinulosum:

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Zamia vazquezii

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Zamia encephalartoides

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Seedlings shadehouse

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Zamia standleyi

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Zamias

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Dioon spinulosun; Cycas thouarsii, Cycas taitungensis, Encephalartos hildebrandtii (new flush):

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Encephalartos natalensis, possibly vriejd form, one of my favs:

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Not sure about this Encephalartos species yet...any guesses?

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Encephalartos vilosus

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Dioon spinulosum, detail:

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Stangeria eriopus couple (fingers crossed!)

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Zamia loddigesii (center); Zamia prasina (right):

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Lepidozamia peroffskyana; Macrozamia communis

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Zamias; Macrozamia miquelli

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Cycas debaoensis x micholitzii, Zamia furfuracea:

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Encephalartos ferox, Zamia inermis:

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Various Cycas sp, Encephalartos lebomboensis:

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Cycas angulata

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Bigger seedlings shadehouse, Dioonland:

[freakypalmguy]

Cycad overload Beauties Gileno.

[Really full garden]

Wow Gileno! You have an incredible collection of cycads.I am trying to acquire more.I have E.ferox,ituriensis,laurentianus and hillebrantii and an unknown Encephalartos I posted pics of recently.I have a large Cycas angulata at the beach and it does well.Zamia furfuracea do really well.My Zamia spinulosum need lots of shade and are not so great looking-I have some of the more tropical Zamias I plan to try in my highland garden which has shade and great soil.

[Kumar]

Ah Gileno - you hav so many wonderful cycads and I have just three (including two dozen C. revoluta - which are so slow they may as well be plastic). I fear I will not be able to look at them again after seeing your photographs.

[ariscott]

Nice collection, Gileno. I really like C. debaoensis... Hhmmm, I might have to see whether I can find one

Regards, ari

[Mr Cycad]

Great photos Gileno!!!

[Gileno Machado]

Cycad overload Beauties Gileno.

Thanks. I wish I had nice cycad nurseries around here, like you lucky California cycad admirers.

Ah Gileno - you hav so many wonderful cycads and I have just three (including two dozen C. revoluta - which are so slow they may as well be plastic). I fear I will not be able to look at them again after seeing your photographs.

Hi Kumar. My collection started with Cycas revoluta too. We have to be a little more patient with cycads, comparing to palms. In the early days I was not using a fast draining medium and still had a tendency of overshading (overshadowing?) my cycads too. These are very rewarding and fascinating plants, sisters to palms but with a proper biological clock, expanding in cicles. You`re lucky to have several nice native cycad species occuring in India and your climate sounds perfect for most species, if controlling the drainage and humidity. Some of them might even have a better participation in cultivated landscape, in the future. Namaste.

Nice collection, Gileno. I really like C. debaoensis... Hhmmm, I might have to see whether I can find one

Regards, ari

Neat one, isn`t it, Ari...Let`s see how it develops, under 70% shadecloth. Sometimes I think I should protect them more, what do you think? Btw, I`d appreciate comments on growing Macrozamia here too, from aussie experts. It`s probably the genus I still get the highest mortality rates here as seedlings. Maybe I should expose them more and add more sand in the mixture, reduce the waterings...or is it a pH issue?

Great photos Gileno!!!

G`day Kurt,

Wish I had a nice forest in the backyard, to plant down a few lovely shaded Bowenias and Lepidozamias, like some folks I know of...

Zamia variegata (picta):

[Gileno Machado]

Wow Gileno! You have an incredible collection of cycads.I am trying to acquire more.I have E.ferox,ituriensis,laurentianus and hillebrantii and an unknown Encephalartos I posted pics of recently.I have a large Cycas angulata at the beach and it does well.Zamia furfuracea do really well.My Zamia spinulosum need lots of shade and are not so great looking-I have some of the more tropical Zamias I plan to try in my highland garden which has shade and great soil.

Sorry Scott, almost missed your post...Cycas angulata is one of my favs too and seems to be the easiest australian native for cultivation in my climate (I`ve killed several C. cairnsiana and media in the past). You`re lucky to grow E. ituriensis and laurentianus...in pictures, they seem to be impressive massive cycads, easily adaptable to tropical coastal conditions. I`d love to see photos of all your babies too.

[aussiearoids]

I have built up a fair collection of cycads over the last few years .

These Cycas micholitzii have finally flushed after digging them up from

another garden over 2 years ago .

They could turn out to really be C. bifida

and I have a few seedlings of them as well .

I am a big fan of Zamias and have several Z picta , one has coned in a pot .

Big boy will be put aside , hopefully all others will be girls

I have traded excess bromeliads for some great Cycads , a few Zamia spartea seedlings.

Zamia pseudoparasitica seedlings are very fast growing , this was tiny when I got it over 1 year ago.this caudex is nearly 2cms [ 1"]