Re: Palm and cycad

For the palm, probably a couple of years. For the cycad, more like 10 or 12 years.

Palms seem to grow fairly fast once they develop a stem, and this one has a stem, albeit a very small stem. Two Bismarckia palms I planted as seed in January 2000, took 6 months to germinate and 2 years to develop a stem. They are now nearly as tall as I am, with stems that are probably 2 feet tall [wholesale value, $50 per foot].

Cycads are another thing altogether. Queen sagos grow fairly fast. King sagos grow moderately fast here, but very slowly in California [must be the humidity or warmer nights]. But the dioons and encephalartoses grow slower than slow. I have a dioon I bought as a liner about 5 years ago that has only doubled in size in all this time--and it is also a plant that grows to be 8 feet tall eventually.

On Saturday, November 13, 2004, at 09:54 PM, Donna wrote:

Interesting plants Jim.... so how long from your size to the pictured
ones?

Donna



Today began Selby Botanical Garden's annual distribution of plants, so
I hurried up after work and came home with a cycad and a palm. Both
are 
in deep 2-inch liners. The palm, Licuala grandus, is about 12 inches
tall; the cycad, Encephalartos gratus, is about 24 inches tall. Here
are links to pictures of what they will look like when they grow up.

Cycad

http://www.plantapalm.com/vce/species/encephalartos_gratus.html

Palm

http://www.plantapalm.com/vpe/photos/Species/licuala_grandis.html

Island Jim
Southwest Florida
27.0 N, 82.4 W
Zone 10a
Minimum 30 F [-1 C]


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