Cycas revoluta

My Cycad is starting another round of fronds ... I had hoped it would bloom ...

 

Looking really good Victoria.

 

I think I need to get another one of these, planted my last one out and it died in the freeze 10yrs or so ago.

 

Last week I spotted 2 pretty big cycads up not for sale, but free to any one who would take them away.

They were so big I had to ask if she thought they would fit in a Ford focus at which point she said I'll come back to you if nobody else wants them.
Apparently she had had them outside, in large stone pots for the last 14years, over in the medway town's somewhere.
Needless to say they were gone when I looked the next day.

 

No, I do not want it to flower if that happens! I got it c2005 and she has a little trunk now. She flushes every year. About this time of year she gets a bit of yellow on her but then it disappears.

What s shame.

 

If they are monocarpic, how can they bloom every 2/3 years. Here is an interesting article ...

Cycas revoluta - King Sago Palms - pollination and seed growing.

 

The cycad family is definitely not monocarpic
They cone every few years

Perhaps they meant dioecious, as there are separate male and female plants

 

I had a feeling that they were not monocarpic, but wasn't sure.
Apparently, I think it's some form of encepholartos, at Kew is the oldest pot plant in the world, a couple of hundred years maybe, forgotten actual age, but I assume that has coned occasionally.

 

Yes, there is an Encephalartos altensteinii which arrived at Kew in the late 1700's I believe

 

It is now three weeks on and this doesn't look like fronds ...

 

Amazing likeness to this one: