At the Squires Garden Centre in Twickenham (home of some of the best gingerbread men outside of Market Drayton), there is a large Wollemia nobilis. And it's got its 'nads out at the moment!
This one is a male - rather appropriately, the male cones are long and thin, and the female cones are rounder. And it's not yet ripe - compare with the male cone I saw at Syon Park back in April:
I am wondering, given that I haven't seen a female cone yet, whether the vast majority of Wollemi pines in cultivation are male. If so, where are all the girlies? I would have thought it was important to have as many female plants as possible for propagation - are the female plants being kept back in the nurseries for this very purpose?
This one is a male - rather appropriately, the male cones are long and thin, and the female cones are rounder. And it's not yet ripe - compare with the male cone I saw at Syon Park back in April:
I am wondering, given that I haven't seen a female cone yet, whether the vast majority of Wollemi pines in cultivation are male. If so, where are all the girlies? I would have thought it was important to have as many female plants as possible for propagation - are the female plants being kept back in the nurseries for this very purpose?
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