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The Grand Daddy Hotel in Long Street, Cape Town, South Africa, has a range of seven refurbished Airstream trailers. Each has décor designed by different South African artists.

They have "23 Superior Rooms, 2 Sugar Daddy Suites, and 7 Airstream Trailers". The Trailer Park is on the rooftop of the hotel. As you can figure, they do not take themselves too seriously.
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The story would be sad if it was true.

While Kew have just the one, it IS extinct in the wild and no female has ever been found, there are SEVERAL HUNDRED specimens being grown around the world. There is a very nice one at the Durban Botanic Gardens, a brother to the Kew one.

It can be crossed with female Encephalartos Natalensis plants (which it is believed to be a mutant of anyhow) and then the offspring can be bred back with the E. Woodii again, so that after three generations you effectively have a pure E. Woodii female. You can keep doing that, gradually eliminating E. Natalensis genes.

So the happy news is that E. Woodii is doing fine and may even be re-introduced to the wild some time in the future.
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