BTA gets the " Mr. Sancona Treatment " Pt. #2.. Savy Cycads.

[Silas_Sancona]

Moving along,  some interesting Cycads in the garden.. ***Keep in mind the thingy mentioned before about snowfall here...

Cardboard palm, Zamia furfuracea


Blurry ( Apologize in advance ) Coontie.


Dioon..




For @Darold Petty  a Ceratozamia hildae


Another personal favorite..


Encephalartos sp.


Dioon mejiae



For  @Meangreen94z  a couple Australian Macrozamia.. First time i have seen any Macrozamia anywhere here...

Macrozamia moorei




And....




More stuff to come.....

[amh]

12 hours ago, Silas_Sancona said:

For @Darold Petty  a Ceratozamia hildae

Love my Ceratozamia hildae, just wish I had more than one.

Thank you for posting these great photos.

[Silas_Sancona]

5 minutes ago, amh said:

Love my Ceratozamia hildae, just wish I had more than one.

Thank you for posting these great photos.

Had a nice specimen i'd been growing for several years ( did well here -in shade- too ). Unfortunately.. not sure what jumped on it but smashed all the fronds / scratched up the Caudex pretty badly.  Not happy about loosing it / having to start over w/ a new one later..

[amh]

11 minutes ago, Silas_Sancona said:

Had a nice specimen i'd been growing for several years ( did well here -in shade- too ). Unfortunately.. not sure what jumped on it but smashed all the fronds / scratched up the Caudex pretty badly.  Not happy about loosing it / having to start over w/ a new one later..

Ouch! Mine is just a 1 gallon so far, but I learned that the Texas sun is a little too intense for this species.

[Silas_Sancona]

4 minutes ago, amh said:

Ouch! Mine is just a 1 gallon so far, but I learned that the Texas sun is a little too intense for this species.

Yep, our sun nearly fried mine..  Lost a couple other Ceratozamia/ Zamia i had the first summer after thinking they could take sun here.. oof! Caudex on my C. hildae was about the size of  a closed fist.

[Tracy]

13 hours ago, Silas_Sancona said:

Another personal favorite..


Encephalartos sp.

On the first photo above, I'm wondering if the one labeled as Zamia fischeri is actually Zamia vasquezii.  I have only seen true Z fischeri once, which was at the Waimea Canyon gardens.  This looks like it has more teeth than Z fischeri, a trait more typical of Z vasquezii.  Both species are attractive plants which I have been meaning to get at some point. Second photo looks more like a Dioon, but I can't make out enough detail in leaflets.  Based on some of the larger cycads they are having success with, there are some additional Cycads that would do well for them from both the Cycas genus and Encephalartos genus.

[amh]

17 minutes ago, Silas_Sancona said:

Yep, our sun nearly fried mine..  Lost a couple other Ceratozamia/ Zamia i had the first summer after thinking they could take sun here.. oof! Caudex on my C. hildae was about the size of  a closed fist.

Wow! That would have been a great specimen, mine is about walnut size. Hows the growth rate?

[Silas_Sancona]

2 minutes ago, Tracy said:

On the first photo above, I'm wondering if the one labeled as Zamia fischeri is actually Zamia vasquezii.  I have only seen true Z fischeri once, which was at the Waimea Canyon gardens.  This looks like it has more teeth than Z fischeri, a trait more typical of Z vasquezii.  Both species are attractive plants which I have been meaning to get at some point. Second photo looks more like a Dioon, but I can't make out enough detail in leaflets.  Based on some of the larger cycads they are having success with, there are some additional Cycads that would do well for them from both the Cycas genus and Encephalartos genus.

Was thinking the same.. I thought Zamia fischeri had been re-named ( or lumped in with ) vazquezii, perhaps the reverse? anyway.. 

As for the Enceph. yea, realized finer ID-ing details kind of blurred while editing.. and that i didn't include the name plate near it.. Was fighting bad lighting from nearby, Massive Eucalyptus overhead in this area as well.  Completely agree that the garden should trial more Encephalartos.. They have an area dedicated to S. African Plants that might be a good spot, if they can handle the sun on that slope..

[Silas_Sancona]

Just now, amh said:

 Hows the growth rate?

Fair.. want to say i'd get 2 or 3 fronds a year here..