Welcome to Africa Cycads
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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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New Cycad Arrivals: | ||
Eastern Cape Giant Cycad View Details E. altensteinii Price: R 3,500.00 nmd | 
Kaapsehoop Cycad View Details E. laevifolius Price: R 18,500.00 Potted | 
Middelburg Cycad View Details E. middelburgensis Price: R 5,000.00 Plus 6cm sucker |
 E. dyerianus, also known as the Lillie Cycad or Lowveld Cycad, grows in open shrubland and grassland on slopes of a single low granite hill in the Limpopo Province, at an altitude of 700 meters.
The stem reaches 4 m in height to 60 cm in diameter. The leaves are long 140-170 cm, blue-matte silver colour, slightly inclined. The stem is straight and equipped with up to six pins. The leaves are 17-24 cm long and 13-18 mm wide. They are equipped with toothed edges and are inserted into the leaf forming angles of 45-80°. At the base of the leaf, the leaflets are reduced to thorns. The spine is normally straight and stiff, but can occur sometimes slightly... |
