The female cycad has a rounded cone that holds the seed, while males produce a taller slender cone that contains pollen. Asian cycad growers cut off the male cone when it is ready to release its ...

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.

A greater understanding of cycad NSC relations is needed to inform cycad horticulture and conservation. For example, growth of Cycas micronesica leaves and male cones generated declines in stem ...

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, 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 ...