Cycads of Central Africa by Peter Heibloem
Out of Print Softcover Edition

This is the out-of-print softcover edition of Peter Heibloem's ground breaking work.
The Cycads of Central Africa are not well known compared to the Encephalartos species found in Southern Africa. Many are located in remote and inaccessible places. Travel through some of these central African countries, where the cycads occur, can be very difficult and as a result there are not many published photographs of these cycads. This is most probably because botanists or cycad enthusiasts rarely visit these countries.
Over the last 4 years Peter Heibloem went on 8 expeditions to Central Africa. He visited Zambia, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Uganda, Mozambique, Democratic Republic of Congo and the Sudan. On these trips Heibloem visited many of the most obscure Encephalartos species and have photographed them.
This booklet serves as a layman's guide and a photographic record of those Encephalartos species visited. No attempt has been made to provide a technical botanical description of the plants. This has been done already in several books.
Central African cycads can be very difficult to identify in cultivation and this book, showing photographs of the plants is intended as far as possible to serve as a reference for identification purposes for the enthusiast. Some notes on how the cycads have performed for the author in cultivation in south east Queensland have been included. Additional cycad species which were not visited by Heibloem have been included with available photographs to make this book as complete as possible.
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