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I am writing to provide another update for the Cycad Day 2011 auction that is coming up next Saturday, 25 June, at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, in Coral Gables, FL. The items that have been added are as follows: 1. Several rare and hard-to-find species (both plants and seeds) 2. An 11" x ...

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Dear Fellow Cycad Enthusiasts: It is my distinct pleasure to announce a recent and exciting development regarding the Cycad Day 2011 event coming up in two weeks at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in Coral Gables, FL, on Saturday, 25 June: the raffle of a Microcycas calocoma seedling!! If you were...

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Nice size caudexes, Steve. Just to give you some perspective on the growth of this species in cultivation as opposed to in habitat, I planted this male Palatka Giant coontie from a 3-gallon container with probably a 1.5-2" diameter caudex in 2004, and within 6 years in the ground it grew into t...

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Steve, I wish you luck with your pollination. However, without the pollen being injected into the inside of the cone, the chances are pretty slim. I use the wet method on all zamias, simply suspending the pollen in a small amount of purified water and injecting the liquid into the spaces between sca...

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Dear Fellow Cycad Enthusiasts, The Cycad Society (TCS) is hosting this year's Cycad Day event at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in Coral Gables, FL, on Saturday, June 25th. Pease make plans to attend, and please encourage your friends to come as well (even if they are not members). This Cycad Day...

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Barb, it sounds to me like you have done everything correctly. The only thing I would recommend now would be a root drench with an all-purpose fungicide. Daconil is best if you can find it. Home Depot still carries it here.

Jody

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Barb, I think I mentioned in a previous post that my female sets seeds naturally almost every year. The native coontie pollinator does the work for me, and since I don't have any other Caribbean zamias in my yard that cone at the same time and there aren't any other zamias anywhere in my neighborhoo...

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Here are a couple new photos from today. I harvested these two male cones.

Jody

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lucky1 wrote:So the pollinator would likely create a hybrid between Dioons and Zamia? or not between species.

I can imagine a whole bunch of eye-popping hybrids...tall Z. spinulosum ?

Barb

Hybrids between species, yes, but not between genera... sorry!

Jody

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In order to keep cross-pollination and hybridization occurring, do you have to isolate cycad species in separate areas? You would only need to isolate plants in areas that have natural pollinators, and even then you would have to go to pretty extreme lengths to prevent the natural pollinators from ...

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Cameron, Thanks for the suggestion, I'll check it out. Barb, These are common, probably not much of a market. One of my goals has been to get a couple of small breeding colonies going. A couple more new plants this season and I should be just about there 8) Steve Actually, the true Palatka Giant co...

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Have a Zamia floridana (wide leaf, "Palatka Giant") coning, does anyone know how to tell when the cone will be receptive to pollen? (and does anyone have any pollen? :D Steve Steve, my Palatka Giants are coning now as well. One of my males has two elongating cones that should be dropping ...

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Jody, I don't see the treasurer's address: Is the membership mailing address: Cycad society U of Florida 1531 Fifield Hall Gainesville FL 32611-0670 or is that just for the newsletter? Thanks, Barb. The address above is just for submitting materials to the newsletter editor. The Membership Director...

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All, Happy New Year! As a New Year’s resolution, would you consider supporting the conservation of cycads around the world? The Cycad Society (TCS) is dedicated to the conservation of cycads through education and scientific research. We support conservation both through the preservation of naturally...

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I am glad to hear about that, Lori. It grows like crazy outdoors for us here in Miami, but it is always nice to know that certain plants will do well indoors.

Jody

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Erik & Steve, The plant in habitat is what used to be widely known as Zamia polymorpha -- but which was recenty revised to Z. prasina (good call, Steve!). You can read more about it in the paper published by Calonje and Meerman last year: http://www.cycad.org/documents/43-49_CalonjeMeerman_Zamia...

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Dean, cutting the leaves off would definitely make them appear more aesthetic, but I would be afraid that it would also stimulate them to flush again before it warms up, or possibly even during another cold spell later in the winter -- which could severely damage the plant. I would recommend leaving...

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Barb, from my experience and from listening to others who are growing this species, Cy. debaoensis is highly adaptable when it comes to soil and fertilizer. You should not have to use any special products or techniques to get them to grow well.

Jody

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Holy cow, they're growing right through the shelves! :D Jody, what is the top dressing? Pieces seem too large to be perlite. Happy 2010 to you, too! Barb Hey Barb. Good question. That is Size 3 perlite -- which is often used in orchid mixes. I buy it in large bags at an orchid supply store here in ...

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Very nice photos, indeed, Steve! I thought you (and others) might like to see some (lesser quality) photos of seedlings from that same batch of Encephalartos transvenosus seeds a little further along here in warm Miami. http://www.imagehostdirect.com/images/virtualpalm/img0804medium.jpg http://www.i...

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This is a bit off the current topic of rapidly germinating seeds of Cycas debaoensis , but I thought it pertinent nonetheless. About a year and a half ago I received some seeds of a particularly plumose form of this species from a friend in Hawaii who had hand-picked both parents. Around 3/4 of them...

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Jody, those specimens are beautiful. Is that a salamander or newt on the cone? great shot. Barb, that is a Caribbean anole ( Anolis segrei ) lizard, which is an introduced species here in south Florida. I have literally hundreds of them in my yard. Do the beetles only show up around the time cycads...

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Here are two more cones that I pollinated this year:

Encephalartos ferox (pollinated with E. whitelockii pollen):

Zamia inermis

Jody

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If the plant was outside in a warm climate, I would say let the cone go to completion. However, if you have it indoors now it might not be a bad idea to remove the cone early. I did pollinate my cone. Since I didn't have any D. angustifolium pollen at the time, and since I have long had an interest ...

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From that photo, I am pretty sure it is a male. Here is a photo of my receptive female cone from a couple months ago:

Jody

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macario wrote:Hello wow thats great. Ive loved looking at the pics. Im learning every days as I read on. Its just a coincidence that I went to water my dioon edule angustifolia I saw a cone starting to emerge. I wonder what sex it will be.

Post a photo and we can probably help you out with the sex ID.

Jody

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Steve, if your plant is on a similar schedule to mine, it should be dropping pollen soon. Here is a photo of my male: http://www.imagehostdirect.com/images/virtualpalm/zvazqueziimale.jpg And here is my female right next to it: http://www.imagehostdirect.com/images/virtualpalm/zvazqueziifemale.jpg Th...

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From that link, sounds like your Zamia would be happy living in the fishpond. Barb, when I was working at a botanical garden here in Florida I had several Zamia roezlii planted in an area near some mangroves that stayed wet most of the time and was occasionally inundated -- knowing that they grow u...

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Nice plant, Steve. Please post photos as it grows. Speaking of C. debaoensis , if anyone here in the US is interested, I have several seedlings of an especially plumose form for sale. Feel free to contact me privately at jody@cycadconservation.org. Here is a photo of the mother plant: http://www.ima...

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Good luck with your new plant, Steve. Here is a photo of a slightly larger one (so you can get an idea what yours will look like one day): http://www.imagehostdirect.com/images/virtualpalm/zamiatuerckheimii.jpg And here is a brief little article that I wrote on this species for our local palm societ...

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I thought some of the readers here might enjoy an exellent post on another forum:

http://www.growingontheedge.net/viewtop ... 7397#37397

Jody

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I have a number of E. transvenosus seeds for sale. They are beginning to sprout.

I also have wholesale quantities of white bird-of-paradise seeds available.

Please contact me by e-mail if you are interested.

Jody@cycadconservation.org

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Unfortunately, I did not see a tag. I could probably contact them and see about getting some info about the plant.

Jody

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Speaking of large, old Cycas revoluta... here is one in the University of Naples Botanical Garden (with my wife for scale). I have no idea how old it is.

Jody

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Steve, while this phenomenon is not common among clustering species, it is also not all that unusual. Some plants just tend to sucker more (and/or at an earlier age) than others. As you can see from the photo below, I once had a very small seedling of Dioon angustifolium that started to form a sucke...

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Barb,

I am glad you enjoyed it. It took many hundreds of hours to consolidate all those terms and etymological derivations and then to assemble the photos to illustrate as many terms as possible. Please feel free to let me know if you find any errors or minor corrections that need to be made.

Jody

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Dear fellow cycad enthusiasts, I have uploaded two new educational resources to the Cycad Society website. The first is an "Expanded Glossary of Cycad Terms," which includes definitions of more than 1,200 cycad-related terms that might be encountered by scientists and collectors alike. The...

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I looked for a section of the PalmsNorth forum specifically for offering material for sale and couldn't find one, so I figured this would be the best place to post my notice. My apologies to the moderators if I am in the wrong place. I just wanted to say that since I was recently laid off, I have co...

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I apologize for not mentioning this sooner, but The Cycad Society is having its annual Cycad Day event at the Wallace Desert Garden in Scottsdale, AZ, next Saturday, April 25th. Click here for more information on the event: http://www.cycad.org/Cycad-Day-2009.htm If any of you are in the neighborhoo...

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That is a very nice plant, Steve. I would recommend cutting off all of the leaves to reduce transplant stress. Try not to keep it too wet.

Good luck!

Jody

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