Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Tropical garden #63, 1 by tropicbreeze

tropicbreeze wrote:
Rachel, you're probably right. The nursery I bought it at has probably put a black mark against my name. I spent a lot of time showing them a lot of inaccurate labels they had on plants.. At least they got the "Alocasia" part right on the one I bought. A few of their "Alocasias" were in fact Colocasias, they weren't happy I was pointing it out. Some time ago I bought an "Anthurium" from them which turned out to be an Amydrium..

Wandering around this morning I saw this Cycas armstrongii. The texts state it grows to 4 metres (about 13 feet). This one I conservatively measured out at about 9 metres (about 29.5 feet). I'd like a dollar for every one of them I've seen over 4 metres - bye bye mortgage.