Welcome to Africa Cycads
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Cycad Trivia Cycads are a source of food for many animals. Larvae of certain butterflies and ants eat secretion from the leaves, cattle feed on the leaves, while fruit bats eat the seeds.  |
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New Cycad Arrivals: | ||
Natal Giant Cycad View Details E. natalensis Price: R 20,000.00 nmd | 
Eastern Cape Giant Cycad View Details E. altensteinii Price: R 3,500.00 nmd | 
Alexandria Cycad View Details E. arenarius Price: R 18,000.00 Potted |
 Encephalartos woodii, Wood's cycad, is famous for being extinct in nature, and for the fact that there is no known female specimen on Earth. It may well be the loneliest plant in the world.
It is endemic to the oNgoye Forest of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It is one of the rarest plants in the world, with all specimens being clones of the type. The specific and common name both honour John Medley Wood, curator of the Durban Botanic Garden and director of the Natal Government Herbarium of South Africa, who discovered the plant in 1895.
Encephalartos woodii is a very handsome plant. The leaves are a dark glossy green, 2 to 3 m long, with a gracefully... |
