Cycads been around since before the age of the dinosaurs. Cycads living today have large, heavy seeds that suggests they rely on large fruit-eating animals to disperse their seeds. Yet there is little ...

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Cycads are living relics of dinosaur days. These ancient plant forms make excellent landscape plants. They are attractive and adapted to dry, sandy soil conditions. Many cycads are endangered because ...

Cycads are an ancient group of plants that have been around since the age of dinosaurs. They were dominant plants at that time, but most are currently considered endangered. While there are more than ...

The sago palm looked like it was pregnant. It was growing a large velvety golden globe as large as a basketball right in the “belly” of the plant. Each of the homes where I have lived came with ...

Botanists have long puzzled over a peculiarity of ancient plants called cycads: they have huge, bright, fleshy seeds displayed in enormous cones. Botanists have long puzzled over a peculiarity of ...

John Allen has an addiction, and he readily admits it. He can’t live without cycads. He has planted dozens of varieties of them across his 1-acre hillside property in rural Vista. Allen bought the ...

A tropical plant has produced male and female cones outdoors in the UK for the first time in 60 million years, in an event that botanists say is a clear indication of climate change. Two cycads (cycas ...

Cycads are the most threatened plant group, prompting a growing need for meta-analysis of cycad literature. As traditional print journals merge with contemporary web-based journals, publishing ...

The ancient cycad lineage has been around since before the age of the dinosaurs. More recently, cycads also co-existed with large herbivorous mammals, such as the ice age megafauna that only went ...