Welcome to Africa Cycads
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Cycad Trivia Cycads produce small seeds that are covered with yellow or reddish flesh. Even though seeds contain toxin, they are part of a human diet in some parts of the world.  |
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Eastern Cape Giant Cycad View Details E. altensteinii Price: R 3,500.00 nmd | 
Natal Giant Cycad View Details E. natalensis Price: R 23,500.00 nmd | 
Eastern Cape Giant Cycad View Details E. altensteinii Price: R 22,000.00 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... |
