 Three basal offsets were collected by Wood's deputy, James Wylie, in 1903 and planted in the Durban Botanic Gardens.One specimen was received at the National Botanic Gardens of Ireland in Glasnevin in 1905 where the register records it as ""Encephalartos way of E. Alten[steinii]"" costing 1 guinea from Sander & Sons.In a 1907 expedition, Wylie collected two of the larger stems and noted that of the remaining two, one of them (the largest of the four original stems) was badly mutilated and he did not expect it to survive.