This medium sized, green leaf cycad comes from the Lebombo Mountains in the Republic of South Africa. It may indeed be the same species. It has several habitat locations. In more recent times, the species of E. senticosus was split from this complex. E. lebomboensis has a trunk that is fairly narrow for its trunk height of ten to twelve feet. I call this a “medium” size because leaves are typically only four to six feet long with widths of about two feet. Leaflets are a glossy green, not very long or wide and mildly armed. In the average garden, don’t expect more than four to six feet in your lifetime. This is a full sun species and cold hardy to the low 20’s F.
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Phil Bergman runs a nursery in San Diego County, Jungle Music. He writes articles on all sorts of palm, cycad, and tropical plants.
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