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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New Cycad Arrivals: | ||
Waterberg Cycad View Details E. eugene-maraisii Price: R 25,000.00 Potted | 
Eastern Cape Giant Cycad View Details E. altensteinii Price: R 22,000.00 nmd | 
Ngotshe Cycad View Details E. aemulans Price: R 6,262.00 t |
 Encephalartos heenanii, also known as Heenan's Cycad or Woolly Cycad, is widespread on the border between Swaziland and South Africa. Its specific epithet is in honor of Denis Heenan, a cycad collector who recognised this plant as a new species, and was indicated to the botanist Robert Allen Dyer (1900-1987) who described it formally.
The stems of E. heenanii are well-developed and suckering or branching from the base. Mature trunks are erect or become procumbent with age. They are up to 3m long and 400mm in diameter. The cataphylls are linear-lanceolate, often persisting in a dry brittle form on the upper half of the trunk and are very densely woolly with long... |
