When a plant endemic to several islands in the Western Pacific Ocean taps the services of a helpful insect, a double-dose of benefits comes its way. The plant is a member of a unique group of plants ...
At first glance, a cycad plant - a "sago palm"- could pass for a true palm, with its single cylindrical trunk topped by a cluster of fronds. Palms and cycads are sold side by side in specialized ...
When a plant endemic to several islands in the Western Pacific Ocean taps the services of a helpful insect, a double-dose of benefits comes its way. The plant is a member of a unique group of plants ...
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 ...
Cycads, said to be the oldest living seed plant, are on the verge of extinction, experts at Lucknow’s Council of Scientific and Industrial Research–National Botanical Research Institute (CSIR–NBRI) ...
Most of Nagalingum’s recent research focuses on cycads, palm-like plants with stout trunks and a crown of stiff, hard leaves. Cycads are believed to be as old (or even older) than dinosaurs. Of the ...
The only known specimens of Encephalartos woodii (E. woodii), a species of cycad, are all clones of the same male plant found over 100 years ago in a South African forest. Now a team of researchers is ...
A new flush of Encephalartos barterii at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden. Older leaves should not be removed because new leaves are sensitive and can be easily injured while older leaves store ...
University of Utah scientists say that they have discovered a strange method of reproduction in primitive plants called cycads. The researchers have revealed that some species of the primeval plants, ...
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