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Encephalartos paucidentatus

General Info – summary This rare, dioecious, endemic Tree has a trunk up to 7m x 70cm.  Long, compound Leaves have leaflets increasingly reduced to spines near base.  Central, spaced apart leaflets are the biggest.  Petiolules are absent.  Brown woolly hairs cover the centre of the crown.  There are 1-5 hairy Male Cones, which are […]

Encephalartos natalensis

General Info – summary This dioecious Tree is up to 7m high with a trunk diameter to 40cm.  Plants grow away from the sea.  The main stem may recline.  The pinnately compound glossy green Leaves are up to 3m long.  All leaflets lack a midrib, & the lowest leaflets are reduced to prickles.  Cylindrical Male Cones […]

Encephalartos longifolius

General Info – summary This dioecious Tree trunk is up to 4m x 45cm and has distinct leaf scars.  Pinnately compound Leaves with a yellow rachis are up to 2m long.  Leaflets have parallel veins, lack a midrib and the petioles do fall – after the leaf blades.  The lowest leaflets are reduced to prickles.  […]

Encephalartos lehmannii

General Info – summary This dioecious, possibly multi-stemmed Tree with its sturdy trunk, may recline, reach 2m long, and have a diameter of up to 45cm.  Leaves are silvery blue to green, pinnately compound & central leaflets do not overlap.  All greenish Cones are solitary.  Male cones develop motile sperm and the larger female cones […]

Encephalartos lebomboensis

General Info – summary This endemic, dioecious, usually vertical Tree is up to 4m high, 30cm in diameter and may have more than one stem.  Pinnately compound Leaves are up to 2m long and leaflets may be sickle shaped, have prickles on both sides and are reduced to spines at the leaf base.  Up to 2 male […]