Most plants use starch for storage and sucrose for transport of NSCs, but some species also rely on oligosaccharides for these functions A recent study explores the carbohydrate ...

John Allen has an addiction, and he readily admits it. He can’t live without cycads. He has planted dozens of varieties of ...

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 ...

This time I am sharing one of my favorite collections, the cycads. I have about 30 of these beauties in my garden nestled in dappled shade and planted alongside agaves and other desert-adapted plants.

Seed dispersal of the Australian cycad Macrozamia miquelii (Zamiaceae): Are cycads megafauna-dispersed "grove forming" plants? American Journal of Botany , 2013; 100 (6): 1127 DOI: 10.3732/ajb.1200115 ...

Plant a number of cycad seeds now and when your plants are 20 years old they will be worth several hundred dollars each. If you had a thousand of them . . . well, you do the math.

It is proven cycads grow far more quickly in warm frost free climates though it will tolerate frost to 21 degrees F. This cycad encloses its seed in a fruity covering called a sarcotesta.

Cycads comprise one of the groups of these ancient plants. University of Guam horticulturists Thomas Marler and Nirmala Dongol recently studied the seed storage tissue for Guam's native cycad ...

Cycads are an old lineage. The fossil record indicates that they've been around for 300 million years, since the Pennsylvanian Period. By contrast, palms are Johnny-come-latelies, no more than 80 ...

Seed dispersal of the Australian cycad Macrozamia miquelii (Zamiaceae): Are cycads megafauna-dispersed "grove forming" plants? American Journal of Botany 100(6): 1127-1136. DOI: 10.3732/ajb.1200115 ...