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Cycad Trivia E. lehmannii (Karoo Cycad) commemorates Prof J.G.C. Lehmann, a German botanist who studied the cycads and published a book on them in 1834.  |
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Eastern Cape Blue Cycad View Details E. horridus Price: R 4,500.00 Potted | 
Natal Giant Cycad View Details E. natalensis Price: R 11,500.00 nmd | 
Natal Giant Cycad View Details E. natalensis Price: R 33,500.00 nmd |
 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... |
