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Cycad Trivia The binomial name of S. eriopus (Stangers Cycad) comes from the Greek prefix “erio-”, meaning “woolly”, and suffix “-pus”, “footed”, referring to the woolly petiole bases. It was named in honour of William Stanger, a former surveyor-general of Natal.  |
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Lillie Cycad View Details E. dyerianus Price: R 18,000.00 nmd | 
Middelburg Cycad View Details E. middelburgensis Price: R 5,000.00 Plus 6cm sucker | 
Suurberg Cycad View Details E. longifolius Price: R 9,500.00 nmd |
 Encephalartos middelburgensis, also known as the Middelburg Cycad, is confined to the Witbank and Middelburg districts in the upper catchment areas of the Olifants River, which include the Wilge and Klein Olifants Rivers, in the provinces of Gauteng and Mpumalanga of South Africa. It is a blue-leaved cycad covered with persistent powdery bloom. It thrives in full sunlight and is frost-hardy. It is distinguished within the group of blue-leaved species of northern South Africa by its long, straight leaves with terminal part curving very slightly upwards, with entire leaflets and reddish brown cones with fine brown hairs.
E. middelburgensis is a large cycad, with an... |
