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Show us your Cycas!

rprimbs

By rprimbs
in TROPICAL LOOKING PLANTS - Other Than Palms

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rprimbs Mentor

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Show us pictures of your Cycas! Sometimes I think they're a little underappreciated because of all of the interest in Encephalartos.

I got my parents a Cycas thouarsii for their front patio and they love it. It looks tropical and it doesn't prickle people like a Sago palm might. My dad told me to forget about "cycads" and grow "those" instead!

Anyway here are pictures of a few of my plants.

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Cindy Adair Grand Master

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I'd like one of each! Sorry, none to show.

Cindy Adair

Palm crazy Grand Master

Palm crazy

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Nice collection! Your C. debaoensis x C. revoluta looks a lot like my Taitungensis x Guizhouensis hybrid.

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rprimbs Mentor

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Nice collection! Your C. debaoensis x C. revoluta looks a lot like my Taitungensis x Guizhouensis hybrid.

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That is a nice cross! With the taitungensis in it I'll bet it will be a vigorous grower.

It's hard to photograph but the C. debaoensis X C.revoluta has a split leaf that gives sort of a "two layer" look to the leaves. I hope that the future leaves split even more.

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Palm crazy Grand Master

Palm crazy

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Wow thats neat! I wonder if all C. debaoensis crosses do the same thing. I will put that one on my wish list. :greenthumb:

Last week hot weather here (90F-100F) burnt some of the leaves on my Sago, I bought it in the greenhouse area of the local nursery. But this weeks cooler temps (70's) have green up some of them.

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Benjamin D. Enthusiast

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How do I attach my Cycas photos if they are too big? I have Cycas multipinnata and cairnsiana.

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rprimbs Mentor

rprimbs

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How do I attach my Cycas photos if they are too big? I have Cycas multipinnata and cairnsiana.

I've been using a free online picture reducer to make mine smaller.

MichaelS Contributor

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cycas apoa:

Great looking Apoa Burt.

Michael

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Are you sure that is a C.multipinnata?

Michael

tropicalb Mentor

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cycas apoa:

Great looking Apoa Burt.

Michael

thank you sir!

Benjamin D. Enthusiast

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Are you sure that is a C.multipinnata?

Michael

That is what I bought it as. But no, I am not sure. I was surprised that none of the leaves were divided, but I thought maybe it was a trait gained with age. Other plants I have, like Macrozamia glaucophylla have split leaves only sometimes... What would it be if it isn't Cycas multipinnata?

buccaneers37 Mentor

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The first two shots are my C. revoluta that I just bought yesterday. It has a 6'+ spread and about 18" of trunk. I planted it by myself this morning, which was no small chore.

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This is my C. debaoensis. I had it in a small pot for about 2 1/2 years and it never did anything. I planted it about 3 month ago and it flushed for me.

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A friend of mine gave me this C. circinalis a few months ago.

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For some reason, I have 36 cycads and only 3 of them are from the genus cycas. I didn't realize that. I will have to check into getting more representatives of Cycas.

52% 9B / 42% 10A / 6% "Other"

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Randall SD Enthusiast

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Cycas debaoensis, double flush after several very slow years of just one leaf at a time.

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edbrown_III Grand Master

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I have a few specie C. taitugensis , some hybrids of C. revoluta x C taitugensis and C. robenii its a 3 way hybrid of

C. rev-taitugenis x diananensis --- I wil post a few phtos--- its been raining buckets and meters so alot of vegetation in the photos

photo 1 is the C. revolutata x taitugeniss

photo 2 -3is the hybrid of this with C. diananensis

Photo 4 is a Cycas distributed by the TCS listed as C. Guadongensis --- its revoluta like but not as revoluta as the C. revoluta

Best regards

Ed

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edbrown_III Grand Master

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Heres photoas of C. diananensis --its a mainland species seeds were originally distributed as C. parvulus

Female cones helped me confirm identity --- these were the sources of pollen for the hybrid. They have some resistant to the Cycad scale .

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edbrown_III Grand Master

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Here is the Female cone

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edbrown_III Grand Master

edbrown_III

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My appologies this is the cone

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rprimbs Mentor

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Here is a picture of my Cycas revoluta X Cycas debaoensis. I just got a matching plant from George Sparkman this weekend. This plant started out with fairly broad leaves but I'm growing it in full all day inland sun and the leaves have narrowed.

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rprimbs Mentor

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cycas apoa:

I love Cycas apoa. Super tropical looking! That Cycas is on my gotta have list!

tjwalters Veteran

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Grew this C. revoluta from seed (I think I bought at Flamingo Gardens while on vacation), planted too many years ago:

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Tom

Bowie, Maryland, USA - USDA z7a/b
hardiestpalms.com

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Here is a few of mine which I recently photographed - enjoy.

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This is a cycas sp. that I have grown for some time- Any ideas on the Name would be appreciated- flushes once a year in the oak hammock, and seems cold hardy has seen 22 degrees with only minor leaf burn

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dimitris Enthusiast

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Here is mine cycas revoluta variegated , the yellow will be more intense in next two weeks .

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I will post later photos of my Cycas circinalis and my revoluta x debaoensis hybrid .

If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything.

Western Greece zone 9b

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rprimbs Mentor

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I decided to take a picture contrasting my Cycas cairnsiana (Pronounced "cans-see-anna?") with a regular Cycas revoluta.

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Got Palms Mentor

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A few more!

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Got Palms Mentor

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Last ones enjoy!

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rprimbs Mentor

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Last ones enjoy!

Thank you. Great cycad pics!

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LJG Grand Master

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Cycas debaoensis. Fast growing and after this flush I have decided it must be moved. It is too big for where it is planted.

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Len

Vista, CA (Zone 10a)

Shadowridge Area

"Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."

-- Alfred Austin

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Nice looking plant Len.

In more sun it would grow more upright which I think is better for the plant as the leaves get larger and you don't have to worry much about high winds at your place.

Happy growing,

George Sparkman

Cycads-n-Palms.com

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My wife's Cycas revoluta, 4 metres high (13 ft) !!! Best regards from Italy

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realarch Grand Master

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Beautiful Debaoensis Len, such an amazing leaf structure. I saw one at Dean's place a few years back and it stopped me

in my tracks. It looks like a fern more than a cycad.

Cycas here in Hilo are so prone to scale that many people won't have anything to do with them. I've got a few and one has to keep on top

of the maintenance to keep the scale under control.

Tim

Hilo, Hawaii

Dypsisdean Grand Master

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Tim,

I think it was when Len saw mine a few weeks ago that he decided that his needed moving. :)

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realarch Grand Master

realarch

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Not usually prone to texting slang, but OMG!

Tim

Hilo, Hawaii

LJG Grand Master

LJG

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Very nice Dean. Definitely helped :)

Len

Vista, CA (Zone 10a)

Shadowridge Area

"Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."

-- Alfred Austin

MattyB Grand Master

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Len's should be called Cycas debaowowowensis. Get it? 'Cause of the dogs? Hello?

Matt Bradford

"Manambe Lavaka"

Spring Valley, CA (8.5 miles inland from San Diego Bay)

10B on the hill (635 ft. elevation)

9B in the canyon (520 ft. elevation)

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