Welcome to Africa Cycads
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Cycad Trivia Male plants produce egg-shaped cones that are usually yellow to brown in colour. Female plants develop ovules and seeds on leafy structures called sporophylls.  |
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Alexandria Cycad View Details E. arenarius Price: R 12,500.00 Potted Female | 
Modjadji Cycad View Details E. transvenosus Price: R 7,000.00 nmd | 
Natal Giant Cycad View Details E. natalensis Price: R 23,500.00 nmd |
 Encephalartos humilis (Latin humilis, humble or lowly), is a dwarf species with very little clear trunk and short, keeled, twisted and recurved leaves with entire leaflets. This species grows in subalpine grassland, on slopes on sandy soils over sandstones and are often wedged between sandstone rocks.
Populations are mostly found on east and northeast facing slopes. Heavy rains and dense mists favour coning. This species is threatened by the lack of natural fires in vast managed plantations and this possibly suppresses coning frequency.
The plant is acaulescent; its stem 0.3 m tall and 20 cm in diameter. The leaves are 30-50 cm long, dark green, semiglossy and... |
