Welcome to Africa Cycads
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Cycad Trivia Encephalartos brevifoliolatus, the escarpment cycad, is extinct in the wild and survives only in collections. This is a strictly protected plant, one of the rarest in the world.  |
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Karoo Cycad View Details E. lehmannii Price: R 6,000.00 Potted | 
Eastern Cape Blue Cycad View Details E. horridus Price: R 4,500.00 Potted | 
Gorongo Cycad View Details E. manikensis Price: R 16,500.00 nmd |
 E.lebomboensis is said to be one of the most popular cycads in cultivation, although there is some confusion about its identity. Several populations of what were previously regarded as E. lebomboensis are now regarded as E. senticosus, including most of those found on the Lebombo Mountains.
It was first described in 1949 by Dr Inez Verdoorn. Its centre of distribution was the Lebombo Mountains, stretching from northern KwaZulu-Natal through Swaziland and up into Mpumalanga. In 1995 Dr Piet Vorster re-named the plants from the central part of the geographic range (the Lebombo range from 50 km north of Siteki in Swaziland to the Josini Dam/Pongolapoort Dam in... |
