Since the time of the dinosaurs, cycad plants may have attracted insects using infrared light. It may be the world's oldest ...

While many modern plants use colorful flowers to attract pollinators, ancient palm-like plants called cycads lure them by ...

Cycads use infrared heat to guide beetle pollinators, revealing an ancient plant communication system that predates flowers.

Cycad cones aren’t always hot. Instead, they follow daily cycles of heating and cooling: Pollen-laden male cones produce a big burst of heat in the late afternoon, and then ovulating female cones warm ...

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

Cycads are an ancient group of plants that have been around since the age of dinosaurs. They were dominant plants at that time, but most are currently considered endangered. While there are more than ...

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

Learning how to make a seed was one of the crucial transitions for the world's plants. The competitive advantages that seed-producing plants possess has led to their dominance in most contemporary ...

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 ...