Kozi Cycad
Encephalartos ferox G.Bertol.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 1.1 m
- wide
- —
Zamiaceae
Also called Maputaland cycad, Tonga cycad, Tongaland cycad, Tongaland Cycad, Zululand cycad
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- ShrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Mozambique to KwaZulu-NatalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Toptropicals, one source
- Height
- 61 cm to 1.5 mRead from Toptropicals, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from Toptropicals, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -1.1 °C (USDA zone 10a)Read from Toptropicals, one source
Not known yet: spread, flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (5)
- Afrikaans
- Mapoetalandbroodboom, Tongalandbroodboom
- Shona
- Untopani
- Tsonga
- Chihanga
- Chinese
- 刺叶非洲铁, 锐刺非洲铁
- Zulu
- umThobane, Untopani, uThobani
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Toptropicals, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- 3D model: Encephalartos ferox (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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