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Cover of the Journal
April 2008 (92)

Common Dotted Border (Mylothris agathina agathina) resting on a leaf of an Encephalartos species in the Lowveld National Botanical Garden, Nelspruit. This garden has the largest collection of cycads on the African continent. For more information on this and other National Botanical Gardens visit www.sanbi.org.
(Lou-Nita le Roux, SANBI, South Africa)

In this issue of Encephalartos:

  • FROM THE PRESIDENT/VAN DIE PRESIDENT
  • FROM THE COUNCIL/VAN DIE RAAD
    • Nuwe redaktrise/New Editor
    • Eastern Cape members
    • News from the Transvaal regional branch
    • Transvaal branch: Mini conference report/Transvaaltak: mini-konferensie verslag
  • NEW PUBLICATIONS
  • FOCUS ON...
    • Dioon argenteum – TJ Greg, Chemnick, S. Sala-Mor & Vovides
  • ARTICLES/ARTIKELS
    • Broodboompryse in Suid-Afrika - N. Grobbelaar
    • Ethnobotany and conservation status of Indian Cycas species - P. Radha & R.Singh
    • Die twee vroulike keeltipes van Cycas spesies en hul verspreiding - N. Grobbelaar
    • The value of cycads to human wellbeing - an overview - AM Ravele & RA Makhado
    • The Big Nambas dance in Vanuatu - R. Osborne
    • Visit to the Eden Project - W. van Eeden
    • Monaco: casinos and cycads - W.Tang
  • LETTERS/BRIEWE

Cover of the Journal
December 2007 (92)

Cycas calcicola near Tolmer Falls, Litchfield National Park, Northern Territory, Australia, showing new leaf growth after a recent fire.
(Harvey Ottley, Australia)

In this issue of Encephalartos:

  • FROM THE PRESIDENT/VAN DIE PRESIDENT
  • FROM THE COUNCIL/VAN DIE RAAD
    • 'Grow Cycads' - Donaldson & Winter
    • Navorsingsfonds/Research Fund
    • Subscriptions for 2008
    • Eastern Cape members/Lede in die Oos-Kaap
    • New board members: April - October 2007
    • Financial report - 2006
  • NEW PUBLICATIONS
  • BOOK REVIEW
    • "Cycads of Vietnam" - Lou Randall
  • FOCUS ON...
    • Cycas calcicola – Roy Osborne, Harvey Ottley and Lou Randall
  • ARTICLES AND SHORT COMMUNICATIONS / ARTIKELS EN KORT MEDEDELINGS
    • Cycas truncata De Laub., A long-known but not validly named species - David J.de Laubenfels
    • Encephalartos flavistrobilus, The difference - Ian Turner
    •  Viability of liquid nitrogen stored pollen of Cycas elonga (Leandri) D.Y. Wang - Yang Quanguang, Li Nan1, Li Zhigang
    • Size is important - William Tang and Roy Osborne
  • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR/BRIEWE AAN DIE REDAKTEUR
    • New look - Piet Vorster
    • Obtaining a cycad permit in Cape Town - Leon Naude
    • Encephalartos whitelockii in Rwanda - Klasie Breytenbach
    • Our constitution - Piet Vorster

Cover of the Journal
September 2007 (91)

Encephalartos latifrons in habitat.
(Frikkie Conradie, South Africa)

In this issue of Encephalartos:

  • FROM THE PRESIDENT/VAN DIE PRESIDENT
  • FROM THE COUNCIL/VAN DIE RAAD
    • Back copies of Encephalartos/Vorige uitgawes van Encephalartos
    • 'Grow Cycads' - Donaldson & Winter
    • Voorgestelde veranderinge aan die konstitusie/Proposed changes to the constitution
    • Navorsingsfonds/Research fund
    • Results of presidential elections and referendum
    • Subscriptions for 2008
    • Financial report - 2005
    • New board members, 2008 - 2009
  • NEW PUBLICATIONS
  • BOOK REVIEW
    • "Speculations on the Encephalartos species of Mozambique" by P.Capela - Piet Vorster
  • FOCUS ON...
    • Zamia inermis – Roy Osborne and Andrew P. Vovides
  • ARTICLES AND SHORT COMMUNICATIONS / ARTIKELS EN KORT MEDEDELINGS
    • Disagreement within the Society - Nat Grobbelaar
    • Cycad nursery in the Andes - Willie Tang
    • growth and phenology of Zamia inermis at Montgomery Botanical Centre - Michael Calonje
    • The relative resistance of some cycads to Photoinhibition - Liu Weili, Li Nan, Li Zhigang
    • Verklaring - Dr. Bingle Kruger

Cover of the Journal
June 2007 (90)

Ceratozamia norstogii in habitat.
(Piet Vorster, South Africa)

In this issue of Encephalartos:

  • FROM THE PRESIDENT/VAN DIE PRESIDENT
  • FROM THE COUNCIL/VAN DIE RAAD
    • News from the Lowveld Branch
    • Letter to the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism
    • Cycad 2008
    • In Memoriam
    • New Members/Nuwe Lede - November 2006 to April 2007
  • NEW PUBLICATIONS
  • CYCADS OF VIETNAM - A NEW BOOK
  • FOCUS ON...
    • Ceratozamia norstogii – Roy Osborne and Miquel Angel Perez-Farrera
  • ARTICLES AND SHORT COMMUNICATIONS / ARTIKELS EN KORT MEDEDELINGS
    • The Albany Cycad: Population and Habitat Viability Assessment Workshop (PHVA) - Morne Ferreira
    • Fasciation of the stem and microsporangiate cone of the gymnosperm, Cycas revoluta Thunberg, 1782, (Cycadaceae) in Texas - Alfred R. Loeblich III
    • Encephalartos humilis in habitat - Diderik Nel
    • Visit to one of the Inyanga habitats of Encephalartos manikensis - Malcolm Thackray, Mike Kimberley and Manfred Spindler.
    • Cycads at the Madrid Train Station - William Tang
  • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR / BRIEWE AAN DIE REDAKTEUR
    • Putting to bed a common myth - Andre Cilliers
    • Blare aan keel - FWM Roets
    • "Focus on..." Series index/Fokus op - Reeks indeks - Roy Osborne

Cover of the Journal
March 2007 (90)

Microcycas calocoma in habitat, Cuba.
(Marian Marshall, Australia)

In this issue of Encephalartos:

  • FROM THE PRESIDENT/VAN DIE PRESIDENT
  • FROM THE COUNCIL/VAN DIE RAAD
    • Back copies of Encephalartos/Vorige uitgawes van Encephalartos
    • Grow Cycads - Dondaldson & Winter
    • News from the Gauteng/Transvaal Branch
    • Encephalartos laevifolius (Mariepskop)
    • Book review/Boekoorsig
  • NEW PUBLICATIONS
  • FOCUS ON...
    • Macrozamia concinna - Roy Osborne and Louis Randall
  • ARTICLES AND SHORT COMMUNICATIONS / ARTIKELS EN KORT MEDEDELINGS
      • Encephalartos flavistrobilus, a recently discovered species from Zambia - Ian Turner
    • Encephalartos flavistrobilus I.Turner, Sclavo & Malaisse - some critical comments - Roy Osborne & Dennis Wm. Stevenson
    • Some species of cycads favour a CO2 enriched atmosphere - Liu Weili, Li Nan and Li Zhigang
    • The Encephalartos woodii complex - Nat Grobbelaar
    • An attempt at determining the rate of growth (height) of two specimens of Encephalartos transvenosus ("Modjadji palms/Modjadji broodbome) and hence their age - Charles de Kock
  • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR / BRIEWE AAN DIE REDAKTEUR
    •   Interesting photographs - George Fritz
    • Stag horn fern on cycad - Derrick Coetzee
    • Newspaper article - "Cycad thieves sent to jail" - M.J.H. Tonkin

Cover of the Journal
December 2006 (88)

Encephalartos heenanii in habitat.
(Jan Maarten Visser)

In this issue of Encephalartos:

  • FROM THE PRESIDENT/VAN DIE PRESIDENT
  • FROM THE COUNCIL/VAN DIE RAAD
    • Back copies of Encephalartos / Vorige uitgawes van Encephalartos
    • Grow Cycads - Donaldson & Winter
    • Zimbabwean Members
    • New Members - April 2006 to September 2006 / Nuwe Lede - April 2006 to September 2006
  • NEW CYCAD PUBLICATIONS
  • BOOK REVIEW
  • CYCADS OF VIETNAM: A FORTHCOMING BOOK
  • FOCUS ON...
    • Macrozamia dyeri - Roy Osborne
  • ARTICLES AND SHORT COMMUNICATIONS / ARTIKELS EN KORT MEDEDELINGS
    • Cycad Conference in India - William Tang
    • Some notes on Encephalartos relictus P.J.H. Hurter - Nat Grobbelaar
    • Wortelgroei Stimulant - Chum van Zyl en Dr W. A. Vermeulen
  • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR / BRIEWE AAN DIE REDAKTEUR
    • "Lillie Cycad Reserve" - Hennie Roos

Cover of the Journal
September 2006 (87)

Encephalartos middelburgensis in habitat.
(Burgert Gildenhuys)

In this issue of Encephalartos:

  • FROM THE PRESIDENT/VAN DIE PRESIDENT
  • FROM THE COUNCIL/VAN DIE RAAD
    • Back copies of Encephalartos / Vorige uitgawes van Encephalartos
    • Grow Cycads - Donaldson & Winter
  • NEWS FROM THE WESTERN CAPE
  • NEW CYCAD PUBLICATIONS
  • BOOK REVIEW
  • CYCADS OF VIETNAM: A FORTHCOMING BOOK
  • FOCUS ON...
    • Cycas hoabinhensis - Roy Osborne, Ken D. Hill, Hiep T. Nguyen, Loc Phan Ke
  • ARTICLES AND SHORT COMMUNICATIONS / ARTIKELS EN KORT MEDEDELINGS
    • Cycad damage from hurricane Wilma - William Tang
    • Cycads at the Edison-Ford Winter Estate in Ft Myers, Florida - William Tang
    • Controversial recommendations by griffiths, Schult & Gorman about the wild harvesting of Cycas arnhemica - Nat Grobbelaar
    • Visit to Encephalartos lanatus habitat - Preggy Chetty
    • Rootstim amd Growstim - Martin Bruwer
    • Mallorca's parliamentary cycad - William Tang
  • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR / BRIEWE AAN DIE REDAKTEUR
    • Corrections and response - Doug Downie
    • Comments on article by D. Douwnie - Prof. F.B.Waanders
    • Saving a rotten Encephalartos altensteinii - Wessie van der Westhuizen
    • Cycad people - Avis Nel
    • Hybridisation is irresponsible: A collection of opinions - S.A. Cycad Group

Cover of the Journal
June 2006 (86)

Encephalartos dyerianus in habitat - Lillie Cycad Reserve.
(Zandberg Jansen)

In this issue of Encephalartos:

  • FROM THE PRESIDENT/VAN DIE PRESIDENT
  • FROM THE COUNCIL/VAN DIE RAAD
    • Back copies of Encephalartos / Vorige uitgawes van Encephalartos
    • Grow Cycads - Donaldson & Winter
    • New Members - August 2005 to April 2006
  • NEWS FROM THE WESTERN CAPE
  • NEWS FROM KWAZULU NATAL
  • NEW CYCAD PUBLICATIONS
  • FOCUS ON...
    • Zamia amazonum - William Tang
  • ARTICLES AND SHORT COMMUNICATIONS / ARTIKELS EN KORT MEDEDELINGS
    • Not in my garden - Douglas Downie
    • Continental drift and the evolution of South American cycads - William Tang
    • Financial support of cycad research from the Cycad Society of South Africa - Nat Grobbelaar
    • Cycad cultivation in Europe - Ottotino Stainer
    • Cycads and cathedrals - William Tang
  • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR / BRIEWE AAN DIE REDAKTEUR
    • Information for beginners - M.J.H. Tonking
    • Variegation in cycads - Greg Holzman
    • Visit to South Africa - Bill Pepperell
    • Monte Casino - Christo Smit
    • Dying leaves - Klaus Schmid
    • Dioon sonorense - Ottorino Stainer
    • Male and female cones - Pieter van der Walt

Cover of the Journal
March 2006 (85)

 

In this issue of Encephalartos:

  • FROM THE PRESIDENT/VAN DIE PRESIDENT
  • FROM THE COUNCIL/VAN DIE RAAD
    • Back copies of Encephalartos / Vorige uitgawes van Encephalartos
  • NEWS FROM THE TRANSVAAL / GAUTENG BRANCH
    NEWS FROM THE WESTERN CAPE
  • NEW CYCAD PUBLICATIONS
  • FOCUS ON...
    • Macrozamia johnsonii - Roy Osborne, Louis Randall and Jeffrey Chemnick
  • ARTICLES AND SHORT COMMUNICATIONS / ARTIKELS EN KORT MEDEDELINGS
    • In Memoriam : Elsa Christina Vorster - Wessie van der Westhuizen
    • Notes from the Garden: Offsets in the genus Macrozamia. - Jeff Chemnick
    • IUCN Cycad Specialist Group establishes subgroup to deal with growing menace from the cycas aulacaspis scale. - Willie Tang
    • Cycads in New Zealand’s art deco city. - William Tang
    • A Suckering Lepidozamia peroffskyana. - H.C. Kennedy
    • Rariteit of natuurfrats - Zandberg Jansen
    • Notes on growing a few Asian cycads in South Africa. - Morné Ferreira
  • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR / BRIEWE AAN DIE REDAKTEUR
    • PEncephalartos striatus - Wes Jacobs
    • Stadige broodboom / Slow cycad - Leon van Rooy
    • Takbokvaring op broodboom / Staghorn fern on cycad - Derrick Coetzee
    • Obtaining a renewal permit in Cape Town - Leon Naudé

Cover of the Journal
December 2005 (84)

Encephalartos longifolius growing in the Suurberge Nature Reserve.
(Wynand van Eeden)

 

In this issue of Encephalartos:

  • FROM THE PRESIDENT/VAN DIE PRESIDENT
  • FROM THE COUNCIL/VAN DIE RAAD
    • Membership fees for 2006 / Ledegeld vir 2006
    • Back copies of Encephalartos / Vorige uitgawes van Encephalartos
    • Financial Statements / Finansiële State
  • NEWS FROM THE TRANSVAAL / GAUTENG BRANCH
    • National Cycad Conference - 2005 - Nicolene Rothman
    • Farewell function for our secretary-treasurer, Prof Guillaume Theron - Morné Ferreira
  • NEWS FROM THE NATAL BRANCH
    • Mini Cycad Conference - Durban - Avis Nel
  • NEWS FROM THE WESTERN CAPE
  • NEW CYCAD PUBLICATIONS
  • ARTICLES AND SHORT COMMUNICATIONS / ARTIKELS EN KORT MEDEDELINGS
  • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR / BRIEWE AAN DIE REDAKTEUR
    • Probleme met Encephalartos transvenosus / Problem with Encephalartos transvenosus- J.L van den Heever
    • Encephalartos ferox in Mozambique - J. Surju
    • Survival of Encephalartos species - Klaus Schmid

Cover of the Journal
September 2005 (83)

Mass planting of Macrozamia, thought to be M.johnsonii, against a bank in Melbourne.
(Piet Vorster)

In this issue of Encephalartos:

  • FROM THE PRESIDENT/VAN DIE PRESIDENT
  • FROM THE COUNCIL/VAN DIE RAAD
    • Membership fees for 2006/Ledegeld vir 2006
    • Back copies of Encephalartos/Vorige uitgawes van Encephalartos
    • New secretary-treasurer/Nuwe sekretaris-tesourier
    • Fincial statements/Finansiele state
    • New Members/Nuwe Lede
  • NEW CYCAD PUBLICATIONS
  • NEWS FROM THE TRANSVAAL/GAUTENG BRANCH
    • Garden Outing - 28th of May Roelof van Wyk - Mooinooi
    • Garden and habitat outing 2nd/3rd July - Groblersdal & Middelburg
  • FOCUS ON - FOKUS OP
    • Dioon caputoi - Roy Osborne
  • ARTICLES AND SHORT COMMUNICATIONS / ARTIKELS EN KORT MEDEDELINGS
    • Germination of Cycad Kernels - Nat Grobbelaar
    • Leichardt may have been First - Roy Osborne
    • The Frankenstein Cycad - Edwin Brown
    • "Designer Cycads" - Greg Holzman
    • Does a Cycad Seedling have a Coleorhiza? - Nat Grobbelaar
    • The Status of Cycas inermis Lour. - David J. de Laubenfels
  • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR / BRIEWE AAN DIE REDAKTEUR
    • Home made "hotbed" - Andrew Fraser
    • What and When to Feed - John Lok
    • Stigting van 'n Streektak/Founding of a Regional Branch - Frikkie Conradie
    • Obituary: Gifts for South Africa's Famed rain Queen - Sent in by Roy Osborne

Cover of the Journal
June 2005 (82)

Cycas tropophylla growing on vertical limestone cliffs on an island in north Vietnam's Ha Long Bay.
(Piet Vortster)

In this issue of Encephalartos:

  • FROM THE PRESIDENT/VAN DIE PRESIDENT
  • FROM THE COUNCIL/VAN DIE RAAD
    • Back copies of Encephalartos/Vorige uitgawes van Encephalartos
  • NEW CYCAD PUBLICATIONS
  • NEWS FROM THE TRANSVAAL/GAUTENG BRANCH
  • FOCUS ON.../FOKUS OP...
    • Cycas tropophylla by Roy Osborne
  • ARTICLES AND SHORT COMMUNICATIONS / ARTIKELS EN KORT MEDEDELINGS
    • Variegation in Cycads - Craig Thompson
    • The living fossils of Africa's biodiversity under threat. Can the most critically endangered Encephalartos cycads be saved from extinction? - I.A. Coetzer
    • On the road to Chicamocha - A. Lindstrom & A.Calonje
    • Media Release - NPARKS Launches Evolution Garden - Terri Oh
    • A Cycad-hunting expedition to Honduras - Piet Vorster
    • A Morning in Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, Cape Town - Pieter van der Walt
  • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR / BRIEWE AAN DIE REDAKTEUR
    • Help with identification - Preggy Chetty
    • Unknown Cycad - Pieter van der Walt
    • Transplanting your Cycads - Morne Ferreira
    • Rejuvenated Encephalartos lanatus - Viv Elliot
    • Cycad Twins - Vaughn Botha
    • Siamese Twins - Paul Kennedy

Cover of the Journal
March 2005 (81)

Encephalartos eugene-maraisii in habitat in the Waterberg.
(Derik Minnaar)

In this issue of Encephalartos:

  • FROM THE PRESIDENT/VAN DIE PRESIDENT
  • FROM THE COUNCIL/VAN DIE RAAD
    • Membership fees for 2005/Ledegeld vir 2005
    • Back copies of Encephalartos/Vorige uitgawes van Encephalartos
    • Nominations for Secretary-treasurer/Nominasies vir sektretaris/tesourier
    • Corrections/Regstellings
    • List of Members/Ledelys
  • NEW CYCAD PUBLICATIONS
  • BOOK REVIEW/BOEKBESPREKING
  • REGIONAL NEWS - TRANSVAAL/STREEKNUUS - TRANSVAAL
  • ARTICLES AND SHORT COMMUNICATIONS / ARTIKELS EN KORT MEDEDELINGS
    • A Tale of Two Cycad Gardens - William Tang
    • Cycad Growing for the Beginner : What and When to Feed - A. J. Cilliers
    • The case for Boweniaceae - Craig Thomson
    • The 7th International Conference on Cycad Biology - Aletta Page
    • CYCAD 2005 - The 7th International Conference on Cycad Biology - Piet Vorster
  • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR / BRIEWE AAN DIE REDAKTEUR
    • Effects of Fire on Encephalartos ghellinkii - Daryl Neethling
    • [SACYCAD] Burning of Encephalartos humilis - Pieter van der Walt

Cover of the Journal
December 2004 (80)

Cycas pranburiensis in its limestone hill habitat at Khao Sam Roi Yot, Thailand.
(William Tang)

In this issue of Encephalartos:

  • FROM THE PRESIDENT/VAN DIE PRESIDENT
  • FROM THE COUNCIL/VAN DIE RAAD
    • Membership fees for 2005/Ledegeld vir 2005
    • Back copies of Encephalartos/Vorige uitgawes van Encephalartos
    • New members since September 2003/Nuwe lede sedert September 2003
  • NEW CYCAD PUBLICATIONS
  • BOOK REVIEW/BOEK BESPREKING
  • CYCAD 2005 - SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CYCAD BIOLOGY - FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT
  • FOCUS ON.../FOKUS OP...
    • Cycas pranburiensis by William Tang
  • SHORT COMMUNICATIONS AND ARTICLES/KORT MEDEDELINGS EN ARTIKELS
    • Continental drift and the evolution of Asian Cycas - William Tang
    • Vegetative propagation of Stangeria eriopus from leaf material - Errol Douwes, Mark Gillmer, Mark Mattson and Chris Dalzell
    • Cycads at "Sydney in Bloom - A festival of gardens" a report from down under - Craig Thomson
    • Ita van der Walt - gebore Schoeman - 27 Junie 1936 tot 28 Januarie 2004 - Derik Minnaar
    • Broodboom konferensie in die Laeveld - Derik Minnaar
    • Algemene jaarvergadering van die Transvaalse Streektak - Derik Minnaar
    • Growing cycads for the beginner - Wynand van Eeden
    • Man gave names to all the plants - Andre Cilliers
  • LETTERS TO THE EDITOR / BRIEWE AAN DIE REDAKTEUR
    • Value, availability and demand: what is going on? - A.J. Cilliers
    • Young hope for cycads - Jaco van Wyk

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