Golden (flower) shower

[Tracy]

So this Encephalartos is sitting directly under one of the inflorescence on a Chrysalidocarpus prestonianus.  During the day while the bees are working the flowers, it literally is a continuous shower of flowers dropping.  The caudex on the cycad is completely obscured from the  golden flower shower yet there are still more flowers to open on this inflorescence.  Eventually I'll get the hose out and hose it down into the bark chips around it for it to mix with the mulch.  For now it is a golden carpet creating some nice color contrast.

[happypalms]

9 hours ago, Tracy said:

So this Encephalartos is sitting directly under one of the inflorescence on a Chrysalidocarpus prestonianus.  During the day while the bees are working the flowers, it literally is a continuous shower of flowers dropping.  The caudex on the cycad is completely obscured from the  golden flower shower yet there are still more flowers to open on this inflorescence.  Eventually I'll get the hose out and hose it down into the bark chips around it for it to mix with the mulch.  For now it is a golden carpet creating some nice color contrast.

Nice effect I get the same affect with my Australian flame tree but only bright red also thats one fine specimen of encepharlatos you have there 

[Tracy]

The source of the golden shower... first is the inflorescence that dropped all the flowers with the next one in line about to flower in the upper right hand corner of the photo, followed by a photo of the one loaded with flowers.  Final two photos are the oldest of the three inflorescence which flowered first and now has some seeds to show for it's effort.  Make that a lot of seeds.  We will see if they all drop or some of them are retained to maturity this year.

[happypalms]

46 minutes ago, Tracy said:

The source of the golden shower... first is the inflorescence that dropped all the flowers with the next one in line about to flower in the upper right hand corner of the photo, followed by a photo of the one loaded with flowers.  Final two photos are the oldest of the three inflorescence which flowered first and now has some seeds to show for it's effort.  Make that a lot of seeds.  We will see if they all drop or some of them are retained to maturity this year.

Oh wow it’s a palm making all that golden mess I thought it was a tree even cooler it’s a palm tree 

[Tracy]

2 hours ago, happypalms said:

Oh wow it’s a palm making all that golden mess I thought it was a tree even cooler it’s a palm tree 

 

21 hours ago, Tracy said:

Encephalartos is sitting directly under one of the inflorescence on a Chrysalidocarpus prestonianus

Chrysalidocarpus prestonianus was named Dypsis prestoniana until recently, but was a Chrysalidocarpus even before that....   It was genus uniting for a couple of decades based on physical characteristics (morphology) but new genetic studies resulted in genus splitting again.  Now the Madagascar Dypsis  has been split back into Dypsis, Chrysalidocarpus and Vonitra genra.

[Tracy]

It looks like the some of the seed on the first inflorescence which opened this summer on my Chrysalidocarpus prestonianus is about to ripen.  It is developing a little color.  I doubt that the other two inflorescence will have any seed set given that they are just starting to develop the seeds now and we are getting well into Autumn.