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European Cycads Trade & Legislation


Sellers

Find the list of EU companies selling cycad plants, seeds or seedlings. Do you know of more? Let us know...


France

  1. •Pépinières de Saint-Georges-le-Vieux - with price on demand only

  2. •A l’ombre des figuiers

Germany

  1. •Rare Cycads by Peter Wisbar - English, German and Czech language site

  2. •Rare Palm Seeds  by Tobias W. Spanner in Munich, provider of seeds

  3. •Eurocycas - by Dieter Schneeweiss near the Cottbus borderline to Poland

  4. •Thrinax - by Jörg Schumann near Berlin

  5. •E-Bay Cycadeen Shop - seeds mostly

Ireland

  1. •Seeds to Cycads - by Michael Fox in Southern Ireland

Netherlands

  1. •Exoplants

  2. •Exogarden

  3. •Seedo

  4. •Seed Garden of Eden

Slovakia / Czech Republic

  1. •KPR (www.kpr.eu) by Martin Smetana, sells seeds and seedlings from Slovakia and distributes from Czech city of Brno too.

Spain

  1. •Amazonia - David Coca in Barcelona sells some cycads seeds too

United Kingdom

  1. •Palm Centre, London

  2. •Minor Garden by Jan Methorst, Dutchman in the UK

  3. •Los Gatos Plants by Jonathan Lethbridge - updated address


All the companies are inside the EU internal market.


Legislation


More information on cycad legislation in the EU can be found here:


EU Scientific Review Group

http://ec.europa.eu/environment/cites/srg_en.htm which publishes species bans after its meetings (like the Encephalartos import ban from South Africa on December 3, 2010)


EU Wildlife Trade Regulation database

http://sea.unep-wcmc.org/eu/Taxonomy/index.cfm


EU Regulations

N° 865/2006

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2006:166:0001:01:EN:HTML

N° 338/1997

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:31997R0338:EN:HTML

Encephalartos altensteinii in Leiden Hortus Botanicus in Netherlands

Cycads in Europe & other countries


We are gradually mapping the European collection of cycads. Until now, we have done the following. Read more in our articles


  1. •Czech Republic (CZ) - some of the text can be also found on our English homepage - with some of the oldest Encephalartos altensteinii and the tallest Cycas circinales and Microcycas calocoma in Europe as well as a nice collection of fossil cycads

  2. •Belgium (CZ) - This article adds some information to the text published in Whitelock on Encephalartos laurentianus, the species described from the plants from the Belgian Congo, still in collection in Meise

  3. •Cuba (EN) and the Havana Botanical Garden - isolated country with not much information published abroad

  4. •Denmark (EN) with the oldest Zamia lindenii in Europe

  5. •Ireland (EN) - the birthplace of Ceratozamia fuscoviridis in Dublin

  6. •the Netherlands (EN) with a beautiful collection in Leiden

  7. •Poland (EN) with some historical plants from the original Warszewicz garden in Krakow and a fantastic group of Stangerias and 200 yrs old plants of Ceratozamia mexicana

  8. •Portugal (EN) - see also our photo gallery from Lisbon

  9. •Slovakia (EN) - with one of the EU well known cycad seed sellers

  10. •Sweden (EN) with probably the largest Zamia pseudoparasitica on public display in Europe