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Thinking of epiphytic Cycads, here is a Zamia pseudoparasitica with a 15 meter root! Speaking of Z. pseudoparasitica, this characteristic of the elong...

Thanks, Steve. That is a great article. I will also bring forward the link to an article that I wrote back in the December 2005 issue of the Cycad New...

Something about this thread has sure made it popular, because 7,000+ views has got to be some kind of record!Jody

One more question.Sorry!Would corraloid roots be absent/unnecessary if fertilizers were consistently used (supplying nitrogen/nitrates)?Thanks for thi...

That is interesting, Jody!Looks like a cluster of bees around a comb.I read a little more about corraloid roots;they apparently grow up towards the su...

Are corraloid roots what miccorhizae cling to as part of a symbiotic relationship? No. Mycorrhizae attach themselves to the regular fine roots and inc...

Those "knobs" corraloid roots are for nitrogen fixing? Does that occur even in winter indoors? If the corraloid roots are populated with cyanobacteri...

Glad I repotted today.The roots were dry as a bone in the unglazed clay pot. :? I am not surprised by this, Barb. That is a typical response to dr...

Jody,Does the Rhopalotria mollis also serve as a pollinator for Zamia floridana?How about Eumaeus atala ?Are they any pollinators for Cycas & Dioo...

Only 4 of 10 C.debaoensis seeds made it, and only 1 of 10 C. panzhihuaensis seeds.There'll be some risk this winter/next spring from repotting, too. B...

This is the time of year for E. gratus to flush here in south Florida. One of my big plants is flushing a sucker right now (see below), and I expect t...

I suspect the latter, Barb... although that looks more like a toad than a frog. Would that make it a toad stool?Jody

With the typically slower growing ones, (edule,etc), would leaving the oldest fronds attached speed up overall growth in the long run? It could possib...