Cycads are an ancient group of plants that have been around since the age of dinosaurs. They were dominant plants at that ...
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 ...
The paper is published in the journal HortScience. Cycads, known for their primitive features and slow growth, are one of the ...
Electron microscope image of an adult insect Cycadothrips chadwicki-- known as a thrips (the word is singular and plural) -- after it emerged from the male cone of a cycad plant covered with bits ...
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.
Japan (Amami Island, northern Ryukyu Islands): the large orange nuts or seeds are used as a famine or emergency food. The nuts grow in a cluster atop the stems of the plant. These may be mixed with ...
We aim to: Determine whether patterns of co-evolution can be detected through study of the known distributions of fossil plants and dinosaurs (geographic and temporal). We are using GIS (Geographic ...
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 ...
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 ...
This small species – also known as a plains cupid – is often found in gardens and parks. Unlike most of its close relatives, whose larvae feed on a diversity of plants, cycad blue caterpillars feed ...