Posted by Tom Broome on 11/18/2005, 11:00 pm, in reply to "Encephalartos cone ?" --Previous Message--
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: I have an Encephalartos Whitelockii
: That recently threw a cone and I was
: wondering how you tell the
: differance between a male and female
: cone? Thanks, Steve
:
Typically the male cones are thinner, and the cone scales would also be smaller. A male cone might be about 4 or 5 inches wide, where a good sized female cone would be more like 10 inches to 12 inches wide.
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