Blazing colors and enticing scents may be showy, but they're just one part of the toolkit plants use to lure in pollinators.

Harvard researchers have discovered that cycads—one of the oldest living lineages of seed plants—heat up their reproductive ...

1. A study of the primary and secondary wood of Cycads indicates the development of reticulate, alternate, and opposite pitting directly from scalariform types. 2. The grouped, uniseriate, and ...

An empirical exercise to gain a deeper understanding of the status of the world's cycad genera has concluded. The approach uncovered 337 cycad entries into The Red List, and the taxonomic validity of ...

The words “pollination” and “flower” may seem inseparable, but plants began courting insects millions of years before they ...

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 ...

LAWRENCE — Cycads, a group of gymnosperms which can resemble miniature palm trees (like the popular sago palm houseplant) were long thought to be “living fossils,” a group that had evolved minimally ...

Research on cycad trees in Colombia, Guam, and the Philippines has illuminated how knowledge of their branching behavior may benefit conservation decisions for the endangered plants. In a study ...

The Atala butterfly (Eumaeus atala) and its five closest relatives in the genus Eumaeus like to display their toxicity. This sextet’s toxicity comes from what they eat as caterpillars: plants called ...

John Allen has an addiction, and he readily admits it. He can’t live without cycads. He has planted dozens of varieties of them across his 1-acre hillside property in rural Vista. Allen bought the ...