Cycad cones and flushes

[Tracy]

Winter flushes push so slowly.  My seedling Encephalartos (horridus × woodii) × (horridus × woodii) started pushing a single leaf flush a few weeks ago which is still emerging.  The leaflets on this newest leaf look more like it's mother than earlier leaves.   Clearly,  the cooler nights and days, less sunlight of this time of year are the driving forces.

It is still at the stage where it pushes single leaf flushes multiple times through the year instead of storing up energy for a multiple leaf flush only once or twice during the year like it's mother. 

[Tracy]

9 hours ago, Tracy said:

Winter flushes push so slowly.  My seedling Encephalartos (horridus × woodii) × (horridus × woodii) started pushing a single leaf flush a few weeks ago which is still emerging.  The leaflets on this newest leaf look more like it's mother than earlier leaves.   Clearly,  the cooler nights and days, less sunlight of this time of year are the driving forces.

It is still at the stage where it pushes single leaf flushes multiple times through the year instead of storing up energy for a multiple leaf flush only once or twice during the year like it's mother. 

Two other creepers trying to finish flushes in late Autumn and Winter.  Encephalartos (arenarius × woodii) × (horridus × woodii) seedling and Ceratozamia pacifica. 

[Brian]

Very few of my cycads are currently flushing however the previous flush leafs are spreading out and making room for the next flushes so hopefully soon I’ll have more to post. Currently I have an Encephalartos sclavoi that’s putting out a nice flush. 
I also have a Encephalartos delucanas that is pushing out a two leaf flush. These are very slow growers but I think it will start to grow faster now that it’s a bit more established.

[aztropic]

E. sclavoi is also starting to flush in Arizona. Typical grow time for this guy. This is a large species to be sure. Caudex is already basketball size; with a couple pups.

 

aztropic 

Mesa, Arizona 

[Dan64]

Zamia inermis sending up its first flush

 

[Dan64]

Dioon edule with its second frond 

[happypalms]

Zamia fischeri new leaf!

[Dan64]

1 hour ago, happypalms said:

Zamia fischeri new leaf!

Looking great but that’s a brown emergent Zamia vazquezii

[happypalms]

A nice big cycas thourasii flush! 

[happypalms]

On 1/6/2026 at 8:20 PM, happypalms said:

Zamia fischeri new leaf!

Oh well I can put that one down as another species I have then. They are 30 years old, so way back then even seeds were sold as something else! 

[Dan64]

The thing about that is they were thought to be Z. fischeri coming out of Veracruz but were found out to be an undescribed species related to Z. fischeri. So something like 90 to 95% of the plants sold as Z. fischeri are Z. vazquezii. True Z. fischeri is extremely rare in cultivation 

[Brad52]

Never known who this is?

[Dan64]

Are some of the leaflets tri-pinate?

[Billeb]

4 hours ago, Brad52 said:

Never known who this is?

Looks like Cycas Panz to me. 
 

-dale 

[happypalms]

A nice cone forming on the ferox. 

[Brad52]

5 hours ago, Dan64 said:

Are some of the leaflets tri-pinate?

Have to check but I think they are lance shaped.

 

[Tracy]

Since it is the dead of winter in the Northern Hemisphere, I wasn't surprised that the first new flush to begin in my garden for the New Year is on the Encephalartos laurentianus. 

Unfortunately,  it will likely get beat up in rain and wind, emerging at this time of year.  At least the days are getting a little longer with each passing day, so increasing sunlight for it.

[Merlyn]

On 1/8/2026 at 7:16 PM, Brad52 said:

Never known who this is?

I'd guess Cycas Micholitzii.  It looks like it has a bunch of bifid leaves coming off the rachis in pairs from one spot.  If the bifid leves come off the rachis *only* solo (not in pairs) then it's probably Bifida.  If the bifid leaves come off the rachis in more than pairs, then it's probably a hybrid.