Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. cycad cones in infrared light Blazing colors and enticing scents may be showy, but they're just one part of the toolkit plants use ...

The plant known as cardboard palm is neither cardboard nor palm. This low growing species, Zamia furfuracea, is actually a close relative of ancient cycads which have survived since the time of the ...

Flowers are often described as visual advertisements, using bright colors and strong scents to draw in insects. Yet long before petals and pigments dominated the landscape, some plants relied on a ...

The cycads are an unusual group of gymnosperms in that they are pollinated by insects rather than by wind. In a study of the Mexican cycad, Zamia furfuracea, pollination was found to be dependent on a ...

Brace yourself for a hot story about plant sex. Harvard researchers have discovered that cycads—one of the oldest living lineages of seed plants—heat up their reproductive organs to attract beetle ...

Ancient plants called cycads say “come hither” in infrared. By Sofia Quaglia If a plant wants to reproduce, there are a number of tricks it can use to lure a pollinator insect. It can display gaudily ...

• The cardboard palm (Zamia furfuracea) is neither cardboard nor a palm; it’s a cycad. Most cycads have short woody trunks and large evergreen leaves. The cardboard palm is dioecious — which means ...

Cycads are the oldest living group of seed-producing plants — and it seems they use infrared heat signals to attract specialized nocturnal weevils that deliver their pollen 1. Wendy Valencia-Montoya ...