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unusual facts about Cycad


Loran Whitelock

Loran M. Whitelock is an American botanist who specializes in Cycads, a prehistoric plant that once dominated the planet and is now somewhat rare and endangered.


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Dioon edule

Whitelock, Loran M. "Variation in the Mexican Cycad Dioon Edule (Zamiaceae)."

Dioon purpusii

Infestations of Aulacaspis yasumatsui, otherwise known as cycad aulacaspis scale, have been known to affect D.

Eumaeus atala

In Florida, the larva (caterpillar) feeds on a native cycad, Zamia pumila, called Coontie, as well as introduced ornamental cycads.

Florida arrowroot

The toxin can however be removed by careful leaching, and the roots and half-buried stems of this cycad were used by Native American people (notably the Tequesta and Mayaimi Indians, the Seminole Indians and the Maroons) to produce this starch.

Geology of Antarctica

Ginkgo trees and cycads were plentiful during this period, as were reptiles such as Lystrosaurus.

George Brown Darwin Botanic Gardens

The gardens also has a large collection of native and introduced tropical plants including cycads, palms, Adansonia, gingers and heliconias.

Henry Harold Welch Pearson

In 1907 he made a second attempt in the company of E. E. Galpin who had previously accompanied him on cycad-hunting trips to the Eastern Cape.

M. communis

Macrozamia communis, the burrawang, a cycad species found on the east coast of New South Wales, Australia

Microcycas

Microcycas is a genus of cycads in the family Zamiaceae containing only one species, Microcycas calocoma, endemic to a small area in western Cuba in Pinar del Río Province.

Ongoye Forest

It was home to the giant Wood's Cycad (Encephalartos woodii) which has been extinct in the wild since the early 1900s.

Panzhihua

Was identified, confirmed that this is a rare new species of Cycas, known as "Panzhihua Cycad" and given the botanical name Cycas panzhihuaensis.

Rinconsaurus

Besides the plant remains that might have been expected, such as cycads and conifers, discoveries published in 2005 revealed an unexpectedly wide range of monocotyledons, including palms and grasses (Poaceae), including ancestors of rice and bamboo, which has given rise to speculation that herbivorous dinosaurs and grasses co-evolved.

Tobacco ringspot virus

Symptoms and virus inclusions of Tobacco ringspot nepovirus in the host Zamia furfuracea, the Cardboard Cycad.


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