CYCADS OF SOUTH AFRICA

• Endangered.

CULTIVATION:

• Prefers regular water with good drainage.
• Full sun to semi shade.
• Frost tolerant.

PROPAGATION:

• Mainly from seed.
• Seldom produces suckers.

• Eastern Cape Province from Humansdorp to the Willowvale and Kentani areas in the Transkei.
• Grows in open grassland.

STEM:

• Erect but subterranean and can attain a length of 30-40 cm with a diameter of 20 cm - 30 cm.
• Stem crown is covered with soft woolly cataphylls.

• Both male and female cones emerge with a bright green colour but become more yellowish with cone maturity.
• There is also a variation in the cones of the various localities.