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Welcome to Cycad Society of South Africa
Our credo is to promote all aspects of knowledge of cycads, and to foster a lively interest in these plants. These objects are worthy of pursuit.The cycads have been with us for perhaps 100 million years, but in recent times their numbers and perhaps diversity in nature have dwindled due to competition with flowering plants. Perhaps the single most serious threat to their continuing existence is man, collecting wild plants for ornamental applications. On the scientific front we have lately learnt that these plants have very specialised pollinators, and that re-establishment in nature is unlikely to be successful without profound knowledge of the biology of these plants. Against this background, we firstly promote interest in, and appreciation of, these plants by propagating and growing them as horticultural subjects, and secondly we actively encourage scientific research and the documentation thereof so that we can keep the captive and remaining wild plants alive in years to come.
We invite you to participate in this process.
About Us
- To encourage the cultivation and propagation of cycads
- To disseminate information on cycads by various means, inter alia through the regular publication of a magazine
- To arrange the legal exchange of plants, seedlings, seed, and pollen of different cycad species between members.
- To encourage scientific research on cycads
- To promote all aspects of cycad conservation
- To foster and maintain links with organisations having similar aims on an international basis
Constitution of the CSSA
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The Council
President
Vacant
Secretary-treasurer
Frikkie Conradie
T: +27 (0)21 981 2628
E: cycad@cycadsociety.org
Editor of Encephalartos
Wynand van Eeden
E: wynand@ananzi.co.za
Media-liaison officer
Japie Steenkamp
T: +27 (0)82 895 0233
E: japie@mitacopy.co.za
Back Copies Officer
Ian Bassingthwaighte
T: +27 (0)12 548 1152 / +27 (0)82 772 9507
E: ibass@lantic.net
Reginal Branch RepresentativesWestern Cape
Johan Kotze
T: +27 (0)84 627 9645
E: johankotze2305@gmail.com
Mpumalanga
Edward Berry
T: +27 (0)84 770 7486 (after hours)
E: dr@drberry.co.za / admin@drberry.co.za
KwaZulu-Natal
Paul Mostert
T: +27 (0)83 233 5045
E: mpaul@telkomsa.net
Central
Tilania du Preez
T: +27 (0)79 480 4416
E: tilania1@gmail.com
Limpopo
Piet de Bruyn
T: +27 (0)83 447 5979
E: iti30622@mweb.co.zaFrom the Council