Cycas angulata

[Really full garden]

This Cycas angulata is the current star of my grey garden. It just recently flushed at least fifty fronds. A very impressive cycad.

 

 

[Tracy]

3 hours ago, scottgt said:

This Cycas angulata is the current star of my grey garden. It just recently flushed at least fifty fronds. A very impressive cycad.

Great looking Cycas!  Love those keeled leaves and the color is very attractive too.  Looks like you removed the previous flush based on the slight color difference on the trunk right below this new flush.

[Really full garden]

3 minutes ago, Tracy said:

Great looking Cycas!  Love those keeled leaves and the color is very attractive too.  Looks like you removed the previous flush based on the slight color difference on the trunk right below this new flush.

Yes I did remove the older leaves.

[Palm Tree Jim]

Perfect looking!

[Josh-O]

awesome pictures!!!

[TexasColdHardyPalms]

I like it. Mine didnt survive the transplant. I am now angualata-less. 

[tropicbreeze]

I'm surprised it's kept its grey colour in your humid climate. The grey (or silver) is usually an adaptation to a dry climate. They do grow to a spectacularly large size for a Cycas. I know they get nearly twice the height of the one in my photo, but that's the tallest I've found (so far). You've got something to look forward to ...........in time.

[5150cycad]

On June 17, 2017 at 8:49:34 AM, scottgt said:

This Cycas angulata is the current star of my grey garden. It just recently flushed at least fifty fronds. A very impressive cycad.

 

 

Beautiful cycad.  Do you know how old it is? 

[Palm Tree Jim]

14 hours ago, tropicbreeze said:

I'm surprised it's kept its grey colour in your humid climate. The grey (or silver) is usually an adaptation to a dry climate. They do grow to a spectacularly large size for a Cycas. I know they get nearly twice the height of the one in my photo, but that's the tallest I've found (so far). You've got something to look forward to ...........in time.

That is something!!!!

[Really full garden]

2 hours ago, 5150cycad said:

Beautiful cycad.  Do you know how old it is? 

It is 15 years from seed.

[Really full garden]

16 hours ago, tropicbreeze said:

I'm surprised it's kept its grey colour in your humid climate. The grey (or silver) is usually an adaptation to a dry climate. They do grow to a spectacularly large size for a Cycas. I know they get nearly twice the height of the one in my photo, but that's the tallest I've found (so far). You've got something to look forward to ...........in time.

The climate at the beach is very monsoonal. We have eight months with zero rainfall and about three with sporadic showers and then one month ( usually September when it floods). No soil just black sand so everything drys out very quickly. A little further inland from the beach it looks just like your photo, dry scrubland ( no ancient Cycas though)

It is always hot.

[5150cycad]

23 minutes ago, scottgt said:

It is 15 years from seed.

Picture perfect. Grown to perfection! 

[Really full garden]

Just took these photos. No doubt we are going to get some rain. The skies over the ocean are foreboding....

[tropicbreeze]

I had to look up a climate map of Guatemala, helps to understand. West coasts especially behind mountainous terrain tend to be very dry for a lot of the year. However, I always imagined Guatemala, being small with ocean on both sides, would be more humid all over. Here we have about 1700mm rain per year with nearly all during 4 - 5 months. On average we get 350 days per year with temperatures 30C or over. All our Cycas species should grow well for you. If you can get it, try C. calcicola, it's a brilliant silver one. It grows well on limestone which you should have a lot of in your beach soil.

[Really full garden]

8 hours ago, tropicbreeze said:

I had to look up a climate map of Guatemala, helps to understand. West coasts especially behind mountainous terrain tend to be very dry for a lot of the year. However, I always imagined Guatemala, being small with ocean on both sides, would be more humid all over. Here we have about 1700mm rain per year with nearly all during 4 - 5 months. On average we get 350 days per year with temperatures 30C or over. All our Cycas species should grow well for you. If you can get it, try C. calcicola, it's a brilliant silver one. It grows well on limestone which you should have a lot of in your beach soil.

Guatemala has an incredible variety of climates, the Atlantic / Caribbean side has a truly year round tropical climate with measurable rain during all months, all other areas have wet/dry seasons that vary in severity depending on altitude. My highland garden is at 800 mts elevation and we get 150-200 inches per year. The dry season is just 8-10 weeks.

At the beach it is another story,no rain for eight months.

My sand is of volcanic origin and is very high in iron.

 

I will see if I can get seeds of C.calcicola. I also think my beach garden would be perfect for Hydriastele ramsayi. 

[tropicbreeze]

Hydriastele ramsayi  seems to do well in low pH sandy soil with high iron. Getting them germinating is the problem.

Below is C. calcicola. In the first image is growing on a limestone outcrop, soil would have a high pH.

The second is in sandstone country, with very low pH and a fairly high iron content.

Both are doing well despite the different conditions, apart from both having very good drainage.

 

[Mandrew968]

Holy moly! That thing looks like it was sprayed with fake snow in a can-love it! I have limestone, but not that... Aussie Cycas are definitely choice plants.

[5150cycad]

21 hours ago, tropicbreeze said:

Hydriastele ramsayi  seems to do well in low pH sandy soil with high iron. Getting them germinating is the problem.

Below is C. calcicola. In the first image is growing on a limestone outcrop, soil would have a high pH.

The second is in sandstone country, with very low pH and a fairly high iron content.

Both are doing well despite the different conditions, apart from both having very good drainage.

 

I found this picture on-line and was wondering if this is also a Cycas Calcicola. I really want to add one of these to my garden. Does anyone know of any place that sells these? 

[tropicbreeze]

There are a few other "silver cycads" but I don't know what the difference is between them. If you like it it's worth getting, doesn't really matter what the name is. You can always find out later.