This was actually a difficult photo as this potted cycad sits on a waist-high bench in the greenhouse. So I had to climb up on the bench, steady myself and hold my point-and-shoot over the near-side leaves to shoot down into the center of the leaf rosette. The new growth in the bottom is reminiscent of the new growth in another cycad I've posted, https://365project.org/rhoing/365/2017-04-19
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@maggiemae They are *very* nasty-sharp! To the extent that Wikipedia can be trusted, “It gets its name from the Latin word ferocious, likely from the spine-tipped lobes on the leaves of the plant.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encephalartos_ferox
![Finally figured out a repair strategy [Filler]](https://media.365project.org/1/9512971_befiknou17_sq.jpg "Finally figured out a repair strategy [Filler]")
