Encephalartos latifrons For Sale! Trapps Valley 5"

[yachtingone]

I am having to sell off some of my best cycad do to unexpected financial burdens :<(.

This E. latifrons I bought from a friend about a year ago. We dug it up out of his garden the same day I planted in mine. The leaves have aged some but it is flushing right now! I moved the mulch away for the pics and seen lots of new colliode roots! The previous owner said it was the fastest grower out of 10 seedlings he bought off of Loran Whitelock!

I am asking $6,000.00 for this plant. I have lots of other really nice cycads for sale too. If you buy some of them the price of the latti will go down some!

Randy

[yachtingone]

This plant sold!

[trioderob]

$6000 cycad comes up for sale and "Bingo' she is sold.

had this cycad been huge what would it have sold for ?

lets say 5' of trunk and 120 years old

lets call it a cycad that comes on the market once in decade type sale

Edited August 24, 2013 by trioderob

[Gtlevine]

Wow! I have a 5" trapps latifrons nicer than that one. I would sell in a heartbeat for 6g. I had no idea they cost that much. I better put mine up for sale officially.

[Ice Blue]

$6000 cycad comes up for sale and "Bingo' she is sold.

had this cycad been huge what would it have sold for ?

lets say 5' of trunk and 120 years old

lets call it a cycad that comes on the market once in decade type sale

A hypothetical e. latifrons of that size would have to be wild collected - a big no no. So you would need to include jailbreak costs from a prison in Pretoria or Johannesburg into your price calculations.

[Gtlevine]

A few gardens in so cal have latifrons with 5' trunks. Loren being one of them.

[The Silent Seed]

Are any of them seeding ?

[neoflora]

They have been setting seed for more than 15 years. Here in California!

[yachtingone]

The one I sold is going out of state so that's one less relatively large lati available in Cali!

[yachtingone]

I have another 5" caudex Trapps Valley form E. latifrons available. I will post a pic soon!

[CodyORB]

On 8/23/2013 at 11:45 PM, trioderob said:

$6000 cycad comes up for sale and "Bingo' she is sold.

 

had this cycad been huge what would it have sold for ?

 

lets say 5' of trunk and 120 years old

 

 

lets call it a cycad that comes on the market once in decade type sale

Hypothetically if there weren’t any legal issues of course I wouldn’t say even $100,000 would be out of the ballpark... just my 2 cents!

Edited July 9, 2020 by CodyORB

[Meangreen94z]

I think I will stick with the poor mans Latifrons, Encephalartos Ferox.

[tropicalb]

much like when you buy large specimen rare palms, when you buy larger specimen cycads,  you're buying "time"...given that between the time a cone starts to initially poke it's head out, and a germinated seed becomes a one leaf seedling can be as much a one and a half year process, cycads are relatively cheap.