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Cycad Trivia 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.  |
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Waterberg Cycad View Details E. eugene-maraisii Price: R 25,000.00 Potted | 
Natal Giant Cycad View Details E. natalensis Price: R 26,000.00 nmd | 
Eastern Cape Blue Cycad View Details E. horridus Price: R 4,500.00 Potted |
 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... |
