My green Dinosaurs !!

[Halloamey]

Thank you everyone for looking.

Ron, the beauty of these plants is that they don't flower at all LOL ! They are Gymnosperms, they bear naked seeds, no flowers but male and female cones. If all goes well the plant can produce male cones in 3 to 4 years and female cones by 5-10 years. The tree planted by Sir. David Attenborough at Kew gardens in 2005 is producing cones now.

wow, very interesting Amey!
how many millions of years you gotta wait for flowers? lol

[Halloamey]

Good to know Cathy. Please post pictures if you have some. I love cycads. This November I will be visiting the Nong Nooch Botanical gardens in Thailand, they have the largest collection f Cycads in the world, I think I am going to go crazy there LOL

There is really nice private collection of rare cycads and palms in south Tampa

[cdayinflorida]

When I get back over to South Tampa, I will try and get photos. I'm looking for it on the 'net for you. This was in a large home in a very old part of Tampa. The collector was a doctor. He had plants that no one had. The yard, which is large, was a virtual palm/cycad jungle.

[Halloamey]

Thanks a lot Cathy, I am really loking forward to them, the virtual palm and cycad jungle would be a bliss for me. When I start my botanical garden, I am going to create a Jurassic garden that will feature cycads, ferns and palms.

When I get back over to South Tampa, I will try and get photos. I'm looking for it on the 'net for you. This was in a large home in a very old part of Tampa. The collector was a doctor. He had plants that no one had. The yard, which is large, was a virtual palm/cycad jungle.