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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rhopalotria furfuracea beetles pollinate the cones of cycad plants. Researchers now know that the cones attract pollinators by ...

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 ...

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 ...

Flowers are often described as visual advertisements, using bright colors and strong scents to draw in insects. Yet long before petals and pigments dominated the landscape, some plants relied on a ...

Cycads are palm-tree like plants that dominated the Earth’s landscape some 280 million years ago when the continents were smashed up into Pangea. Back then, the planet was going through global warming ...

A. You can't until a plant produces a cone. The sago, Cycas revoluta, is not really a palm but a member of the genus Cycad. Cycads have been around for more than 200 million years, and sagos, like ...

Sago palms are no strangers to Houstonians. In fact, they tend to be overplanted in the area, so it’s hard to ignore their physical presence; they display an elegant robustness. They can be found ...

First thing is, it's not a palm, although it resembles one. Sago palm, Cycas revoluta, is one of about 200 species of plants, widely distributed around the world, that are collectively called "cycads.

More than one-third of the crops that support the human diet rely on animals for pollination. That means the pollination services provided primarily by insects enable one in three bites of food we eat ...

The words “pollination” and “flower” may seem inseparable, but plants began courting insects millions of years before they evolved flashy petals. Now we know how they may have done it: not with ...

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 ...