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Alexandria cycad
The Alexandria cycad is a member of an ancient plant group, the cycads, which flourished over 150 million years ago alongside the dinosaurs. Today, there are only around 300 living species of cycad, occupying a small fraction of the group’s former range (4) (5) (6). One of the most attractive of the South African cycad species is the Alexandria cycad, a multi-stemmed, medium-sized plant, with numerous grey-green leaves that recurve towards the tips (2) (6) (7) (8). More
The Alexandria cycad is restricted to the Alexandria area in the Eastern Cape, South Africa (2) (6) (8). - Typically grows on sand dunes, within dense mixed shrubland and coastal forest (6) (8). - Cycads are long-lived, slow growing plants that always occur as individual male or female plants (6) (7). More