Encephalartos chimanimaniensis

From PACSOA Wiki

Welcome to the PACSOA Palms and Cycads wiki!

If you have any information about this species, please help by updating this article. Once you are registered you can contribute, change, or correct the text, and even add photos on this page. Click on the edit tab above and play around. Any mistake can be easily corrected, so don't be afraid.

Figure 1. E. chimanimaniensis at Mt Cootha Botanical Gardens, Brisbane.

Distribution & Habitat:[edit]

Rocky grasslands in the Chimanimani Mountains, on the border between Zimbabwe and Mozambique

Description:[edit]

A medium sized cycad to about 2m tall, occasionally clumping with bright green glossy leaves to about 1.5m long.

General:[edit]

Very closely related to Encephalartos manikensis, it is now extinct in the wild (due to poaching).

Culture:[edit]

A full sun, well drained position, with plenty of water.

Contributed by:[edit]

Mike Gray<


External Links:[edit]

World List, IUCN, JSTOR, Trebrown

Google, GoogleImages, Flickr,