Cycad Question

[tex048]

Have had this Cycad in this small container for sometime to constrict the roots growth - which has worked well.

Needs to be repotted mainly due to physics (center of gravity out-weighing basis of support) its going to tip over..

Would like some opinion of what type, colour, shape container i should repot into.

(string in photo just to support due to lots of rain)

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Thanks

[davo]

Sorry I cant answer your question but I just wanted to say I think it looks great!!!

[Jamie]

gday mate

this is the first cycad i have seen with movement normally they are a clump looking thing! how did you get the movement?

as for the pot maybe a cream crackle glaze?? not sure mate, i dont usually use glazed pots! just my preference though

interesting piece!

jamie

[kcpoole]

There must be different varieties of cycad, as this does not look anything like mine.
as Jamie says, this on has trunk movement where mine is like a stumpy bottle
The leaves are much longer at the the bottom of the stem than mine too.

Almost forgot, Mine is in a cream Oval pot

Ken

[tex048]

Hi Ken & Jamie

I also have another of these that is more of a bottle/upright shape too.
They have different leaf shapes.
The one above is originally from Qld, I believe it's quite old, I'll try to track done the species info.

Thanks for the thoughts on pots...
I can see why a cream pot - oval would look great, it would need to be quite heavy though to counter balance weight

Any thoughts on a rough/homemade-like earthy colored pot, I have seen many natives in similar to these?

Many thanks

[MattA]

The leaves like very similar to my Macrozamia communis tho mine is just a small seedling at this stage. I asked a collecter of cycads once how he got the movement into the trunks of his plants, he simply changes the planting angle each time he repots. This makes the regrowth want to turn more upright thereby slowly imparting movement into them.

Ken, there are loads of different cycads, both in the Cycas genus and many others, I recently borrowed a book on Australian cycads and was amazed at how many different species there are even in just our own country. The most commonly seen is Cycas revoluta that originates from Korea and Japan, they are used extensively as bonsai on the peninsula. Sometimes used as feature plants in landscapes in Japan, the most famous is at one of the temples whose name escapes me, they are the feature on both the Crane and Turtle islands, each winter they are tightly wrapped with rushes to prevent frost damage. If I can find a photo or remember the name of it I will repost.

Matt