Welcome to Africa Cycads
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Cycad Trivia Cycads are a source of food for many animals. Larvae of certain butterflies and ants eat secretion from the leaves, cattle feed on the leaves, while fruit bats eat the seeds.  |
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Lillie Cycad View Details E. dyerianus Price: R 15,000.00 Potted | 
Gorongo Cycad View Details E. manikensis Price: R 16,500.00 nmd | 
Kaapsehoop Cycad View Details E. laevifolius Price: R 18,500.00 Potted |
 Encephalartos nubimontanus(Latin: nubis, black, and montanus, mountain) used to occur in the Drakensberg in the Limpopo province, South Africa. Plants were found in low open deciduous woodland on cliff faces and in direct sunlight, along the mountain range to the north and east of Penge. Occurred at an altitude of 1,000 m.
It was originally known from 66 plants, only 8 were counted in a 2001 survey and none could be found in a 2004 survey despite very careful searching. The species is popular with collectors and there has been much poaching activity in the Limpopo Province of South Africa.
It is most similar to E. cupidus, differing in the... |
