Editing Encephalartos longifolius

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[[File:Encephalartos_longifolius.jpg|frame|Figure 1. ''E. longifolius'' in habitat, Suurberge Reserve, Eastern Cape.]]
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===Distribution & Habitat:===
A wide range of habitats in Eastern Cape Province, South Africa.

===Description:===
A medium sized clumping cycad, to about 4.5 tall, with up to 10 stems.
Dark green leaves to about 2m long. It has the largest female cone
of the genus, and it can weigh up to 40kg.

===General:===
A plant sent to Kew Gardens in 1775, by Masson while he was collecting with
Carl Pehr Thunberg, still survives and was believed to be ''E. longifolius''.
It was properly identified as ''[[Encephalartos altensteinii]]'' recently and is believed to be
the oldest greenhouse plant in the gardens. A point of interrest is that
''E. altensteinii'' does not occur naturally in the Langkloof, where this plant
was supposedly collected.

===Culture:===
Full sun, well drained position.

These pictures (Figures1-3) were taken in
Suurberge Reserve (berge = mountains) next to the Addo Elephant Park
in the Eastern Cape. Plants were growing on northern slopes in
mostly long grass and full sun. Soil is clay but drainage was
still very good because of the slope. There are some
plants showing hybridisation with ''[[Encephalartos horridus]]'',
ie. lobed leaflets but this must be a few generations ago
since even the lobes are rounded much the same
as normal ''E.longifolius'' leaflets.
This hybrid is described in ''Cycads of South Africa'' by C. Giddy.
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[[File:Encephalartos_longifolius02.jpg|frame|Figure 2. ''E. longifolius'']]
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[[File:Encephalartos_longifolius03.jpg|frame|Figure 3. ''E. longifolius'']]
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===Contributed by: ===
Wynand Van Eeden


===External Links:===
[https://www.cycadlist.org/taxon.php?Taxon_ID=321 World List], 
[https://www.iucnredlist.org/details/full/41935/0 IUCN],
[https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?Query=Encephalartos+longifolius JSTOR],
[https://www.trebrown.com/plant_info.php?species=Encephalartos+longifolius Trebrown]
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[https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Encephalartos+longifolius%22&amp;num=10&amp;sa=Google+Search Google],
[https://images.google.com/images?q=%22Encephalartos+longifolius%22&amp;hl=en&amp;btnG=Google+Search GoogleImages],
[https://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Encephalartos+longifolius Flickr],
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