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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...