Cretaceous pollen cone with three‐dimensional preservation sheds light on the morphological evolution of cycads in deep time. New Phytologist , 2023; 238 (4): 1695 DOI: 10.1111/nph.18852 Cite ...

Cycads are gymnosperms and do not produce any flowers or fruits. Instead, they reproduce by producing seeds in seed cones on female plants and pollen in pollen cones on male plants.

Cycads, a primitive type of seed plant, first emerged around 300 million years ago, before dinosaurs roamed Earth. In cycads, male and female reproductive structures — called cones — are ...

BY PETER D. MOORE Department of Biology King's College London, U.K.. The cycads are an unusual group of gymnosperms in that they are pollinated by insects rather than by wind. In a study of the ...

Project leader Laura Cinti visited the Wood's cycad at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in London. C-LAB. The world’s loneliest plant could soon be a little less lonely—and possibly even find a ...

Cycads are gymnosperms, a group that includes conifers and ginkgos. Unlike flowering plants (angiosperms), cycads reproduce using cones. It is impossible to tell male and female apart until they ...

“It’s from the Lower Greensand (period), which is around 115 million years old. It was a period of a huge sea level rise, so a lot of earth was gradually being flooded and turned into shallow ...

Cycads, a group of gymnosperms that can resemble miniature palm trees (like the popular sago palm houseplant), were long thought to be “living fossils,” a group that had evolved minimally since the ...