Cycas micholitzii

[caixeta]

I'm starting to adventure with Cycads  , see  what a great surprise , my first Cycas micholitzii . Give your opinion  ?

[BS Man about Palms]

Trying to decide if variegated or has a deficiency....

[TexasColdHardyPalms]

You may have a winner on your hands, but cant be for sure until another flush or two.

[caixeta]

The ugly duckling and his brothers .

[XYZ]

Caixeta:

I have seen examples of this type of variegation in juvenile East Asian Cycas spp twice before. It was not stable into youth. I showed images of one to several well-known cycad wallahs and they all warned me it would probably dissipate with age. IME, good, stable variegation in cycads appears to more more "striped" than "mottled", and is often not evident on the eophyll.

Good luck anyways,

Jay

[caixeta]

After 6 long months . CONFIRMED !!!!!!     Beautiful variegation. My rarest plant.

[TexasColdHardyPalms]

So far so good. Ive been crushed by the varigation gods many times before and i hope your varigation sticks. I now have a varigated mazari, trachycarpus and zamia praisina seedlings. If one of them keeps the varigation ill finally be happy. 

[XYZ]

16 hours ago, TexasColdHardyPalms said:

So far so good.

I hate to rain on the fiesta, but I completely disagree. An albinistic second leaf is a negative event here, given the irregular, virused-looking variegation of the eophyll. It is quite likelyy that this combo will stall the plant and slow the emergence of a new (third) leaf which, if also albinistic, will send the seedling into rapid and terminal decline. I have seen this before in a related sp., but the plant went the other way; pushing more and more "normal"-colored leaves until it grew through what turned out to be ephemeral juvenile variegation.

Again, my admittedly limited experience with variegated cycads (Several Zamia and Cycas spp.) leads me to believe that "good" variegation is a consistent, vivid striped/striate or marginate contrast coloration, not virus-like mottling.

Jay

[XYZ]

Here is the Cycas sp. Wilailak (?) I referred to above in a friend's collection in 2008. As you can see, it started off with unstable, mottled variegation, then produced two more alike until starting to push a much greener fourth leaf, and then afterwards into a more normal aspect. I popped a C. bifida on my own bench about the same time that had a virused-looking eophyll like these, then rapidly went green fully green over the course of a few new leaves.

Good luck, Caixeta, but the odds are very much against you.

[aussiearoids]

Some here are line breeding for extreme amounts of spots in Zamia variegata .. 

I have shared images here before , but here they are again 

Am awaiting the release of some in the next few years 

[caixeta]

14 hours ago, aussiearoids said:

Some here are line breeding for extreme amounts of spots in Zamia variegata .. 

I have shared images here before , but here they are again 

Am awaiting the release of some in the next few years 

 Very beautiful.