George and others, here are some more E horridus photos, Days 2 to 7...more to come:

Edited June 9, 201016 yr by xerophyte_nyc

Looks like she's putting out a really nice flush xerophyte.

I have decided I like those Encephalartos. Pity they are so slow... hence expensive!!!

Regards, Ari

George and others, here are some more E horridus photos, Days 2 to 7...more to come:

The early pix look like starving little birdies waiting to be fed!

Just thought I would upload a photo of just two of my Cycas Revolutas which are currently putting up new flushes. I know most of you probably wont be impressed since these are so incredibly common and really aren't anything special. For some reason I just love these the most. Not that I don't like all the other incredible varieties mind you. I think some of it may do with the fact I have limited space, and these do the best in the climate where I am and can stand to be outdoors for a good 8-9 months out of the year.

The closest one started in the beginning of may, the farther one just a couple of weeks ago. Once these things get above several inches long it takes almost no time for them to really take off and get huge quick! I currently have 6 of these "King Sago Palms" and these two are the largest in terms of caudex circumference and in leaf length. I have two others which are actually taller in terms of trunk height, but have somewhat shorter leaves.

Here is a close up of the one that is farther away in the above photo:

Dioon spinulosum, recent flush:

Ok, so for some reason that did not work. Lets try this one more time.....

Just thought I would upload a photo of just two of my Cycas Revolutas which are currently putting up new flushes. I know most of you probably wont be impressed since these are so incredibly common and really aren't anything special. For some reason I just love these the most. Not that I don't like all the other incredible varieties mind you. I think some of it may do with the fact I have limited space, and these do the best in the climate where I am and can stand to be outdoors for a good 8-9 months out of the year.

The closest one started in the beginning of may, the farther one just a couple of weeks ago. Once these things get above several inches long it takes almost no time for them to really take off and get huge quick! I currently have 6 of these "King Sago Palms" and these two are the largest in terms of caudex circumference and in leaf length. I have two others which are actually taller in terms of trunk height, but have somewhat shorter leaves.

Here is a close up of the one that is farther away in the above photo:

Blue longy

Nice green

Small latifrons

Fredy G

Cupidus

lehmannii

Nice Revolutas DCA, even though it's one of the most common, it's an excellent looking cycad when well grown, like yours, and they just get better and better with time.

Excellent Braden, let's see an update on that Latifrons

Here is the latest from my above coneage on a Cycas guizhoensis X revoluta

Took these photos of Cycas armstrongii this morning.

Group flushing

Another group flushing (with an odd "usually one in the crowd").

Cone

Another cone

Like others, as we are rolling into our june gloom/ summer months and things start to warm up. Cycads start to push. here are a few from this morning ill take some more of others later.

Here is a Little Arenarius just starting to show a fresh push...

Another Arenarius well into its flush...

Here is a little Middleburgensis putting its efforts into a single leaf...

A nice Ferox throwing about 30 leafs after coning last year...

and this little mystery plant purchased as a princeps but looking a little more trispinosus....

Here are a few that I have high hopes for as they are starting to swell up nicely

A larger Arenarius...

A nice trispinosus...

And a Longifolius.....

WOW! Nice stuff Brett

A Cycas taitungensis which has split into two heads with a male cone on each head.

The "True Blue" arenarius form with the destinctive female cone.

A nice flush on an Encephalartos inopinus

And some rarer cycas species:

Cycas pectinata

Cycas fairylakea

Cycas segmentifida

Cycas sexseminifera.....probably the smallest cycas cone I've ever seen

Bruce

Nice Bruce, that arenarius is awesome, i am waiting for my larger one to cone maybe this is its year. How large where your plants before coning? That inopinus is a nice plant as well one of my favorite if you get a real blue one.

Thanks Bob, ill have to swing by your house and check out the garden, im sure it is looking good as ever. Seems this year for me everything took off. My guess is the rain and a few years everything is tapped in and going for it.

Braden, Looks like things are pushing for you as well. Thats killer, ill have to come down and check the nursery out. looks like you really got everything under control.

Nice Bruce, that arenarius is awesome, i am waiting for my larger one to cone maybe this is its year. How large where your plants before coning? That inopinus is a nice plant as well one of my favorite if you get a real blue one.

Thanks Bob, ill have to swing by your house and check out the garden, im sure it is looking good as ever. Seems this year for me everything took off. My guess is the rain and a few years everything is tapped in and going for it.

Braden, Looks like things are pushing for you as well. Thats killer, ill have to come down and check the nursery out. looks like you really got everything under control.

My "Blue" arenarius coned at about 10" I have 4 which came directly from the farm in Alexandria in South Africa and three of the plants coned female, a friend has at least 30 of the plants so I've been able to get pollen from him.

Bruce,

mine is almost 10" maybe by the time it pushes its cone out itll be 11 haha if i do get

a cone maybe we can work a deal out for pollen.

Is that inopinus at your house i dont remember seeing it the last few times ive been there.

Brett

Here is a couple pics of the first Cycad that I ever bought. It was a 2 leaf seedling and now has a caudex the size of a basketball! Encephalartos Gratus winding up for a big throw.

Stevo

I love the new flush on this one. Dioon Merolae in all It's fuzzyness with a 13 leave flush.

Stevo

NICE STEVO! Your cycads look way bigger now, that tri below your gratus looks great, I like the form. Lets see a pic of the whitelockii from a distance

Here is my large macro and a few others

Here he is finishing off, getting ready to dump a load of pollen.

Cycas guizhouensis X revoluta male cone

close up of the above showing the sporophylls spreading with the pollen capsules or sporangia (I had to look that one up ) inside.

Great pic Matt!

Matt nice cone! Lets pollinate a Cycas revoluta with it!

Encephalartos natalensis squibe form flushing 6' + leaves

E. senticosus flushing also 6' +leaves

E. longifolius blue form flushing

More pics comming

E. horridus stetlerville form flushing

My e. munchii flush in previous pic in this thread has parked it's flush .

Regards, Randy

Here he is finishing off, getting ready to dump a load of pollen.

Cycas guizhouensis X revoluta male cone

close up of the above showing the sporophylls spreading with the pollen capsules or sporangia (I had to look that one up ) inside.

Matt.... Are pics like that allowed on PalmTalk ?

Here he is finishing off, getting ready to dump a load of pollen.

Cycas guizhouensis X revoluta male cone

close up of the above showing the sporophylls spreading with the pollen capsules or sporangia (I had to look that one up ) inside.

Matt.... Are pics like that allowed on PalmTalk ?

Maybe I should have covered up the private parts

Heres a cone off my crested cycas revoluta. its about 8 cones in 1. I currently have it air drying in hopes of preserving it. anyone else do such a crazy thing to a cycad cone?

Luke

My suspected "golden" Cycas Revoluta is pushing out a new flush of leaves again.

Fingers cross but they do look pretty yellow so far.