Stangeria Species, Natal Grass Cycad, Stanger's Cycad

I have grown this plant for nine years in upper zone 9a. It is evergreen when winter temperatures dip into the low 20's F but leaves are ...Read Moredamaged or killed back when temperatures drop briefly into the upper teens. It is rare that my plant has more than five or six leaves but it has produced cones on a few occasions.

Native to Mozambique and Cape Province, South Africa.

Stangeria eriopus grows in slightly acidic soils, which are usually ...Read Moresandy, but sometimes also in heavy clay soils. There are two distinct forms of this species: One grows in dry, open grassland habitat, the other in damp, dense forest. Average annual rainfall 30-39 inches.

It is listed on CITES Appendix I.

This cycad is native to eastern South Africa. It looks unlike any other cycad, looking more like a common plant with large, rounded, sli...Read Moreghtly soft leaves and no spines. It is the only plant in the genus. But it does reproduce by coning and has a caudex like other cycads (mostly underground, though). There are two forms- the open plains form (aka 'grassveldt form') with much stiffer, smaller leaves, and the forest form with large, long floppeier leaves.