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Cycad Trivia Male plants produce egg-shaped cones that are usually yellow to brown in colour. Female plants develop ovules and seeds on leafy structures called sporophylls.  |
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Natal Giant Cycad View Details E. natalensis Price: R 33,500.00 nmd | 
Bushman’s River Cycad View Details E. trispinosus Price: R 3,500.00 nmd | 
Natal Giant Cycad View Details E. natalensis Price: R 22,500.00 Double stem (35 X 80) |
 Encephalartos umbeluziensis occurs in a number of localities in Mozambique and Swaziland. The population is restricted to the valley of the Umbeluzi River. Occurs from 50 to 120 m. This species is found in the shade of low scrub woodland or in relatively dry savanna and bushveld. To the west the plants are found in valleys and further eastwards towards Mozambique they occur on the floodplains of rivers.
It is a small to medium-sized cycad with a subterranean, usually solitary stem with thick tuberous root up to diameter 25 cm in diameter that only branch when injured. The leaves (fronds) are few in a crown 1 to 2 m long with the rhachis straight, erect or sometimes... |
