EXREMELY harsh penalties are being handed down to convicted wildlife poachers these days, so what’s an appropriate sentence ...

The only known specimens of Encephalartos woodii (E. woodii), a species of cycad, are all clones of the same male plant found over 100 years ago in a South African forest. Now a team of researchers is ...

Harvard researchers have discovered that cycads—one of the oldest living lineages of seed plants—heat up their reproductive organs to attract beetle pollinators and the insects possess infrared ...

Dr. Rita Singh aims to investigate one of the major components of the Gymnosperms – the cycads – of the Eastern Himalayan region. Almost nothing is known about the taxonomy, present day distribution ...

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 ...

Most plants get their coloration from pigments, but an endangered South African cycad gets its unique silvery-blue hue from wax crystals and an underlying chlorophyll-rich layer, according to a recent ...