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 ...

Cycads are an ancient group of plants that have been around since the age of dinosaurs. They were dominant plants at that ...

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 Plants ...

The paper is published in the journal HortScience. Cycads, known for their primitive features and slow growth, are one of the ...

My cycad plant has been with me for nearly 35 years. Since I transplanted it some 12 years ago outside my house, it has been weak and has not grown well. I try to fertilise it regularly.