Cycads Escape Their Pots

[O'o Bar Master]

Purchasing cycads has always been an impulse purchase for us so unlike buying palms, the identification of our earliest cycad acquisitions was rarely logged. We recently gathered our potted cycads together in a single location to make watering the individual plants more predictable. We were surprised at how many we actually had acquired once we rounded them up from locations all around the property. We took the opportunity to allow six of them to escape their potted existence and stretch their roots into real soil. At best we know some of the genera but few of the species of these early acquisitions. Any cycad experts who want to clarify some of these will be appreciated.

Mike

[yeye]

Hi MIKE

you have beautiful cycads!!

For sure in the middle right it is a stangeria eriopus and on the second pic it is a macrozamia ! for the specie it 's difficult with one pic ! perharps communis or moorei!

Olivier

[virtualpalm]

Very nice start, Mike. Would love to see some of the others in pots. Here ya go:

1. Zamia standleyi

2. Macrozamia (possibly M. lucida)

3. Zamia neurophyllidia (or, more likely, related undescribed plant from interior Costa Rica)

4. Stangeria eriopus

5. Dioon spinulosum

6. Ceratozamia miqueliana

[Palmpirates]

Nice start to your collection it can grow quickly