Cycads are an ancient group of plants that have been around since the age of dinosaurs. They were dominant plants at that ...
Morongwa Joyce Thobejane,53, a stenographer at the Polokwane Magistrate’s Court, and Warrant Officer Matladi Jeridah Chokoe, ...
The paper is published in the journal HortScience. Cycads, known for their primitive features and slow growth, are one of the ...
Photo: iStock The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) says it will oppose the bail application of five Zimbabwean nationals arrested for allegedly uprooting cycad plants worth more than R1.4 million.
The nuts grow in a cluster atop the stems of the plant. These may be mixed with other foods to stretch Unspecified area: a ‘sago’-type starch can be extracted from the stem and is used during times of ...
Thrips try to enter the green cone of a male cycad plant before the cone opens. The insects feed on pollen in the male cones. University of Utah researchers found that certain cycad plants make ...
Caption Thomas Marler (left) and Gil Cruz (center) measure cycad plant size traits in the foothills of Mount Pinatubo, Philippines, along with Ulysses Ferreras (right) from the Philippine Native ...
Harding. The site protected one of the world’s greatest concentrations of Cretaceous-period fossils, known informally as cycads or scientifically as Bennettitales. These 120-million-year-old plant ...
We are using GIS (Geographic Information System) to map and study large datasets. Test specific hypotheses relating to the evolution of cycad-like plants and flowering plants.
Unlike most of its close relatives, whose larvae feed on a diversity of plants, cycad blue caterpillars feed almost exclusively on cycads, one of the world’s oldest plant groups. Vidyun is a keen ...
Among the 1,500 different species of temperate plants is the extremely rare South African cycad Encephalartos woodii, a plant that has disappeared from the wild and is now found exclusively in ...
The series opens with Kew’s oldest resident, the palm-like cycad, Encephalartos altensteinii, that was brought to the Royal Gardens in 1775. It belongs to a group of plants with incredible ...