Scientists discovered a strange reproductive method in primitive cycad plants: The plants heat up and emit a toxic odor to drive pollen-covered insects out of male cycad cones, and then use a milder ...

Mysterious living Jurassic fossils, beautiful landscape plants with exotic characteristics, nearly wiped out by the animal-cracker industry, now making a great comeback - what's not to like! The ...

University of Utah scientists discovered a strange method of reproduction in primitive plants named cycads: The plants heat up and emit a toxic odor to drive pollen-covered insects out of male cycad ...

When a plant changes little except in size over 300 million years, it has already reached its climax of evolution. Surviving ice ages and meteors and volcanic eruptions proves it is naturally able to ...

American Journal of Botany, Vol. 96, No. 9 (Sep., 2009), pp. 1722-1730 (9 pages) There has been considerable uncertainty about the importance of wind vs. insects in cycad pollination, but recent ...

It's a relationship characterised by rejection, deceit and too much perfume. An affair played out not on the pages of a gossip magazine, but among Australian insects and plants. Researchers have ...

A tropical plant has produced male and female cones outdoors in the UK for the first time in 60 million years, in an event that botanists say is a clear indication of climate change. Two cycads (cycas ...

Everyone knows the tiger, the panda, the blue whale, but what about the other five to thirty million species estimated to inhabit our Earth? Many of these marvelous, stunning, and rare species have ...

Even among the most ancient plants, sex could be a hot, smelly affair. The evidence comes from an Australian cycad that uses a nasty odour not only to lure tiny insects into collecting pollen, but ...

The sago palm you may have in your yard is a tough, reliable landscape feature, but there's more to this plant than meets the eye. First, it isn't a palm at all. It's a cycad. True palms are flowering ...

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