Cycas revoluta

[eastern.nurseries]

These are some Cycas revoluta I have grown from seed over the years. The variegation can be manipulated like in Rhapis but it is a much slower process. What do you think of them?

Above is an example of a Shiroba type. It comes out snow white and slowly fills in the albino choroplasts with pigment to lime green. This is  an extremely rare type.

This centre one and the one below is a 'noshima' type

[eastern.nurseries]

Below is a white type?

And this is a 'nishiki' type

[ariscott]

cool looking... My other half is crazy about variegated anything... I might show him :). I have to say I like the noshima type.

Regards, Ari

[Kris]

Dear Jon  

your first still looks great to me...!

thanks for the stills,

lots of love,

Kris  

[Gbarce]

Very very nice!!!

Do the variegated parts burn easily?

That's a typical problem with Variegated plants but cycads are made of sterner stuff I think.

[tropicalb]

ick!

I don't like. They look like a fert experiment gone horribly wrong to me.

but I LOVE the variegated Rhapis.

[BigFrond]

(tropicalb @ Dec. 23 2007,11:43)

QUOTE

ick!

I don't like. They look like a fert experiment gone horribly wrong to me.

but I LOVE the variegated Rhapis.

I have the same thought too.  Maybe if you put it in the scorching sun it may have the same effect? ???

[aussiearoids]

Very nice Jon ,very different . I heard that there is someone near me with a massive stock of these . Bit out of my price range though .

[Really full garden]

I have one that looks like the Noshima.I found it at a local growers.There were hundreds of normal revolutas.The grower thought it was diseased and was astounded that I actually wanted it.I paid less than $5 for it.It has a caudex about the size of an orange.The new leaves come out green and then slowly change to canary yellow.This variegation is evenly distributed. I love it!

                                                                                             Scott

[eastern.nurseries]

Thanks, for the comments. I think they are an acquired taste. They are interesting and hard to come by but I don't see them as beautiful. Because the leaves last so long they do deteriorate and end up looking poorly. Brendan Price is growing the Kogane or Aurea form in the far north. This is not as rare as it once was. Scottgt lucky boy treasure that find.

[freakypalmguy]

I like them. It ads some color.I would love to get my hands on one.  Very nice Jon.

This is what I'd really like. From PACSOA:

One of the most impressive of the Cycas revoluta mutants is this specimen which bears great flushes of sulphur-yellow leaves, these later becoming green and photosynthetic. This plant was found on a precipice on Kume-Jima island some 25 years ago, and is now in cultivation in the garden of Mr. Seisyun Itokadzu, Deputy Mayor of Gushikawa-son village, Kume-Jima, Okinawa.

Photo: Seisyun Itokadzu