Cycad ID

[5150cycad]

Was over at a friends house today and saw this cycad. Kind of looks like a bonsai  cycas thoursaii.  Anyone have any suggestions. 

[The Silent Seed]

I'm no expert - but it looks like a Z. pumila/floridana / Coontie. 

[cycadjungle]

No, it is definitely a Cycas, leaflets have midribs. The stem almost looks like something from Thailand, or if not, Queensland Cycas. If it IS a revoluta, it just doesn't look right.

[5150cycad]

 

22 minutes ago, santoury said:

I'm no expert - but it looks like a Z. pumila/floridana / Coontie. 

Neither am I. Of all the cycad species, I am most familiar with encephalartos which I am pretty confident I can rule that out. The trunk is the weird thing about this cycad. The trunk kind of looks Ike it is banzai or looks like it is super old.  Thanks for the replies guys. Here is a close up of the trunk. 

[The Silent Seed]

It's neat, whatever it is - and I'm in the same boat - I can rule out Encephalartos, and even Dioon, but that's about it I just buy / sell / enjoy / grow them other than that! 

 

[Palm Tree Jim]

To some degree it looks a little like Cycas patraea.

Agree......definitively in the Cycas family.

[TexasColdHardyPalms]

That's a Cycas of some sort for sure and the trunk looks like a species from India/Thailand, etc. From there it is tough to narrow down.

[5150cycad]

Thanks for the information guys. I think that most agree that it is probably in the cycas family. 

[Mandrew968]

20 hours ago, 5150cycad said:

Thanks for the information guys. I think that most agree that it is probably in the cycas family. 

Not probably. Certainly--you can see the midvein in the leaflets--no doubts that makes it a Cycas. It's from there, that the discussion begins...

[5150cycad]

1 hour ago, Mandrew968 said:

Not probably. Certainly--you can see the midvein in the leaflets--no doubts that makes it a Cycas. It's from there, that the discussion begins...

Now that we are certain that this is a cycas, does anyone else have any idea what it could be? Looking at pictures of cycas patrae (thanks Jim), there are definitely similarities in the trunk, but I don't think enough to make an identification. 

[yeye]

i think it is not a cycas petraea because the leaves are flat  on this species!

[The Silent Seed]

I have a bunch of C. petraea and that's not it. Beyond that, I'm useless :) 

[Palm Tree Jim]

5 hours ago, 5150cycad said:

Now that we are certain that this is a cycas, does anyone else have any idea what it could be? Looking at pictures of cycas patrae (thanks Jim), there are definitely similarities in the trunk, but I don't think enough to make an identification. 

And that was the point......some similarities in the caudex only.

The leaf structure is indeed different as others have correctly pointed out.

Maybe our local cycas experts will chime in soon.

We all would like to know.......

 

 

[Pedro 65]

Brian/5150 hers a ton of Cyas sp from Ken Hill's The Cycad pages  you can look at maybe you'll find out what you have ? best of luck..   Pete

Cycas

[5150cycad]

5 hours ago, Pedro 65 said:

Brian/5150 hers a ton of Cyas sp from Ken Hill's The Cycad pages  you can look at maybe you'll find out what you have ? best of luck..   Pete

Cycas

Thank you Pete.