6-different Cycads

[Al in Kona]

After pulling some weeds from around these Cycads I decided to snap a few pictures to share with you.  BTW weeding around many of the cycads can result in getting some pokes and scratches on the hands and arms despite being careful.  Here are six of them . . .

#1  Ceratozamia miqueliana  1.3m / 4.5 ft tall

[Al in Kona]

#2  Encephalartos kisambo  2.1m / 7 ft tall

[Al in Kona]

#3  Encephalartos sclavoi   1.2 m / 4 ft tall

[Al in Kona]

#4  Encephalartos villosus  1.5 m / 5 ft tall

[Al in Kona]

#5  Encephalartos whitelockii  2.9m / 9.5 ft tall

[Al in Kona]

#6   Macrozamia johnsonii x lucida   2.2m / 7.5 ft tall

[bgl]

Al,

Great looking cycads! I have a E. whitelockii that's about the same size as yours - maybe from the same seed batch? I bought mine from Michael Au in June 2000 (barerooted, but it was about a 5G size). Where did you get yours?

Bo-Göran

[Walter John]

After pulling some weeds from around these Cycads I decided to snap a few pictures to share with you.  BTW weeding around many of the cycads can result in getting some pokes and scratches on the hands and arms despite being careful.

Al, you must wear gloves near these darlings. Great collection, thanks for the pics.

[SubTropicRay]

Nice stuff there Al.

[Kris]

Dear Al  

Beautiful collection of lovely cycas and that macrozamia looks

fentastic since for a novice it would appear closer to a phoenix sp.

thanks & Love,

Kris  

[tropicalb]

nice plants there Al!!!!

[Urban Rainforest]

My Encephalartos Kisambo is throwing the most beautifull flush right now. The new fronds are more than 2 feet longer than the old ones. It stands 8 ft. tall!

Steve

[Urban Rainforest]

Here is a pic of my Encephalartos Whitelockii. It is an old plant and the plant tag said "SP. lake george" when I bought it. The outer fronds flushed during our cold snap so they got a little beat up.

Steve

[Urban Rainforest]

And heres a pic of one of my Cycas Thouarsii's.

[tropicalb]

nice Steve!

those staying with the house when you move i assume?

[Urban Rainforest]

Burt, Were not moving just yet. Gotta make more $ here first. Someday   .

Steve

[Kris]

Dear Steve  

those cycas in your stills remind me of devotees or disciples all lifting their hands in parise of the Lord !  

very beautiful plants and lovely stills,

thanks & love,

Kris  

[Neofolis]

Love those Kisambos.  Al, your Macrozamia is a beauty too.

Kris, check out some pictures of mature Macrozamia moorei, very easily confused with Phoenix canariensis from a distance.  Here is a smaller one in the glasshouse at The Royal Horticultural Society, Wisley.

[Kris]

Dear Neo  

Thanks a lot for that lovely cycas still and yes you are right it has very close resemblense to our favouriate phoneix Sp.

i think i will have to extend my wish list of cycas to be collected even to this beautiful species....

this thread is becoming more and more mouthwatering...

and thanks to Al in kona to have began this exocitic cycas

thread.

lots of love,

Kris  

[Al in Kona]

Microcycas calocoma  native to Cuba.  Here is a pic looking down at my plant which measures 1.2 m / 4ft. tall and 1.8 m / 6ft. wide . . .

[Al in Kona]

This is another one of my favorite cycads, Ceratozamia 'Molongo'.  The caudex now measures 40cm / 16" wide and tall and the width of the leaves spread is about 2.4m / 8ft.  This picture was taken after it had gotten a fairly new flush of growth . . .

[Al in Kona]

Now for a smaller size cycad, Zamia spartea.  I have 4-plants.  One of the larger ones - it stands about 50cm /20" tall and is 81cm / 32" wide . . .

[Al in Kona]

also Zamia spartea showing it coning

[bgl]

Cycads are great, and I'm planning to plant more. Here are my two E. kisambo

[bgl]

And I have a bunch of Dioon mejiae in a different area

[oppalm]

great pics guys.   I have just become a cycad fan.   more please.

[Kris]

Dear Al & Dear Bo Groran  

iam stunned by their buety and most of those varities i have never seen till this day..so a special thanks to you !

love,

Kris  

[bgl]

Here's one more. It's always a spectacular sight when a cycad is flushing new fronds. This is a Cycas pectinata.

[Al in Kona]

When I got this cycad about 11 years ago it was a very tiny plant in a one gallon pot with only a couple small leaves.  I was told it was an unknown wide leaf type Ceratozamia spieces from Mexico.  It's definately a small grower because it still only measures 71cm / 28" tall but spreads out to 1.2m / 4ft wide.  It recently just sent out a new flush of growth and here's what it looks like now.  

Any Cycad people out there have any idea as to what species this might be?

[Al in Kona]

This is Zamia inermis that I grew from a tiny one leaf seedling from Loren Whitelock, a SoCal Cycad specialist.  Thirteen years ago he told me it was likely close to being extinct in habitat.  I like this cycad a lot and am happy to have ione.  It is a female plant.

[aussiearoids]

Al , nice collection of Cycads , I am just starting but developing a taste for the more unusual ones .

Love the nerved Zamias , got several neurophylidias many years ago , some roezlii last year and some skinneri last month.

Here is a Z.neurophyllidia and a pair of Aechmea chantinii .

[aussiearoids]

Close up of the texture on Z.neurophyllidia leaves .

Al , love your Z.spartea , trying to get some Z.angustifolia .