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Cycad
Any of an order of gymnosperms of the family cycadaceae. Cycads are tropical plants that resemble palms but reproduce by means of spermatozoids. (source: WCMC) Background from Wikipedia Families Cycadaceae cycas family Cycads are an ancient group of seed plants characterized by a large crown of compound leaves and a stout trunk. They are evergreen, gymnospermous, dioecious plants having large pinnately compound leaves. They are frequently confused with and mistaken for palms or ferns, but are unrelated to either, belonging to the division Cycadophyta. Cycads are found across much of the subtropical and tropical parts of the world. They are found in South and Central America (where the greatest diversity occurs), Australia, the Pacific Islands, Japan, China, India, Madagascar, and southern and tropical Africa, where at least 65 species occur. Some are renowned for survival in harsh semi-desert climates, and can grow in sand or even on rock. They are able to grow in full sun or shade, and some are salt tolerant. Though they are a minor component of the plant kingdom today, during the Jurassic period they were extremely common. Sago flour is generally made from true palms not from the cycad popularly known as "Sago Palm" (Cycas revoluta). They have very specialized pollinators and have been reported to fix nitrogen in association with a cyanobacterium living in the roots. This blue-green algae produces a neurotoxin called BMAA that is found in the fruits of cycads. National Geographic,A primitive plant called the Australian cycad relies on a surprisingly sophisticated system of meting out food to ensure successful pollination. Old Pest Still Active On Sagos - Oct 20, 2007 Orlando Sentinel,One of the worst pests making a repeat appearance in local landscapes is the cycad scale on sagos. During the summer you might have thought you had this Primitive Plants Use Heat And Odor To Woo Pollinating Insects - Oct 4, 2007 Science Daily (press release)Insects known as thrips are shown leaving the cone of a male cycad plant as the cone heats up and emits an odor to drive the insects away. Ancient plant has hot, stinky sex - Oct 4, 2007 New Scientist (subscription),The evidence comes from an Australian cycad that uses a nasty odour not only to lure tiny insects into collecting pollen, but also to repel them into Plants enjoy hot, smelly sex in the tropics - Oct 4, 2007 ABC Science Online,The plant, called Macrozamia lucida, is a cycad, an ancient group containing species that look part-fern, part-palm, but are in fact related to neither. Plants Trade Food for Sex - Oct 4, 2007 FOX NewsBy Andrea Thompson Thrips leave the cone of a male cycad plant as the cone heats up and emits an odor to drive the insects away. Thrips leave the cone of a A week's worth of science news - Oct 7, 2007 Toronto Star,Most of the cycad's trunk is underground, with a few leafy fronds out in the open. No more frequently than once a year – and sometimes only every couple of Seeds Of Life: Secrets Of The Soil - Sep 25, 2007 CBS News,The prehistoric cycad, for example, has lived for millions of years despite the fact it injects a deadly toxin into its own system which should kill it. Odor-Mediated Push-Pull Pollination in Cycads - Oct 4, 2007 Science Magazine (subscription)We describe the influence of plant volatiles in an obligate pollination mutualism between an Australian Macrozamia cycad (a gymnosperm with male and female Treated like being royalty - Sep 24, 2007 Sowetan,After driving for almost 30 minutes from Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport to Cycad Lodge in Nelspruit, I was happy that I found the place with ease. 'Living fossil' reproduction hot, smelly - Oct 5, 2007 Earthtimes.org,The plants "are trading food for sex," says co-author Robert Roemer, a mechanical engineering professor studying heat transfer within cycad cones. Plants known as "living fossils" use insects for sex - Oct 4, 2007 DigitalJournal.com,Plants have long had a symbiotic relationship with insects, but the ancient cycad tops the lot using heat, chemistry and food to lure and repel their insect Spotlight on Dark Energy - Oct 17, 2007 Edmonton Sun,...odour to drive pollen-covered insects out of male cycad cones, and use a milder odour to draw the bugs into female cones so the plants are pollinated. Disease cluster mystery - Oct 14, 2007 Boston Globe,A possible trigger there was an edible bean, the cycad. The CDC program for tracking environmental links to diseases was spurred by a 2001 Pew Environmental Pollination Starts Sweet Then Turns Sour as Day Heats Up - Oct 9, 2007 New York Times,The plant is Macrozamia lucida, a cycad from Australia. Cycads are those odd ancient plants that look like palms but are actually more like modern conifers. Primitive Plants Have Complex Sex Life - Oct 5, 2007 Forbes,...the plants heat up and emit an intense odor in order to evict thrips (small flying insects) that have been feeding on pollen found in male cycad cones. Primitive plants have hot, stinky sex - Oct 4, 2007 ReutersBy Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) - One of Earth's oldest types of plants, the primitive cycad, uses heavy perfume, heat and a bit of guile to lure Living fossils have hot sex: study - Oct 4, 2007 AFPIn a paper released Thursday, US biologists report that the Australian cycad, a primitive tropical plant with large seed cones, uses a novel "pull-push" Cycads Plants Use Scent to Lure Insects - Oct 4, 2007 The Associated PressRobert Roemer, Terry's husband and a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Utah, studied heat transfer within the cycad cones. A biker’s life -- sort of - Oct 1, 2007 Inquirer.net,He was in Inquirer’s all-male team with audit’s Raffy Esturas and Cycad president (Cycling Advocate Adventure) Monchie Garcia. The hammer among us, Getting Trendy In the Garden - Oct 5, 2007 The Ledger,Among smaller plants increasingly in demand, he says, are butterfly plants such as pentas and plumbago, natives like coontie cycad and, the hottest of all, Leading Pollinators by the Nose - Oct 4, 2007 Science Now,...the insects were attracted to low concentrations of the cycad cone odor but repelled by high concentrations, which actually proved toxic to the thrips. Patricia Scholtemeyer: CEO, Media24 Magazines - Oct 3, 2007 Moneyweb,We're implementing at the moment what we call project Cycad, which is a very big Oracle project which consolidates our distribution and our circulation City Horticulturalist To Speak on Unusual Trees - Sep 26, 2007 Palisadian-Post,...such as the giant dioon cycad'the largest in the city'in Rustic Canyon Park; historic trees, such as the eucalyptus grove in Rustic Canyon and special What you want in a landscape: good sense - Sep 26, 2007 Sarasota Herald-Tribune,She says to shy away from sago palms, a once-desirable species that has become susceptible to asian cycad scale. Most nurseries carry Florida-friendly stock Cycad haul leaves plant lover poorer - Aug 7, 2007 Legalbrief (subscription),Stenning Robert Culverwell (40) was given the hefty fine by Durban Regional Court Magistrate Anand Maharaj after he was caught with 20 cycad suckers and 800 Advances in Neuromuscular Disease - Aug 15, 2007 Medscape (subscription)Borenstein and colleagues [1] reported on cycad seed exposure and risk for dementia, mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and ALS/parkinsonism-dementia complex Alice Springs and beyond - Jul 27, 2007 Malaysia Star,This means the rock pools don’t readily evaporate, and support a crop of cycad palms and ferns. Alice Springs does harbour some fascinating relics of its Quail Gardens – great for kids and adults alike! - 13 Apr 2007 Village News Network,A large plant called a ‘Runde cycad’ has leaves like swords and sprouts a pineapple-looking cone from the center. Cycads are among the oldest plants in the A Jurassic park of their own - Mar 21, 2007 Los Angeles Times,WITH only two decades of collecting under his belt, Bob Burtscher would be considered a newbie in cycad circles if not for the fact that he apprenticed in GREEN STUFF WEST BAY - Mar 14, 2007 San Francisco Chronicle,California Horticultural Society: Cycads -- Living Fossils Maurice Levin presents "Cycad Horticultural Practices: Preservation through Propagation" and "How Longevity Pharma Firm Sets IPO - Mar 2, 2007 Red Herring,Novartis Bioventures Fund, Cargill Ventures, Genzyme, QVT Fund LP, Cycad Group, Hunt Ventures, Red Abbey, and Alexandria Real Estate Equities. Palms for your patio - Mar 10, 2007 Arizona Daily Star,It is classified as a cycad, but it has the look and exotic quality of a palm. Compact size and slow growth make it ideal for container culture. Steve Manfredi: Macadamia nuts - Mar 2, 2007 Sydney Morning Herald,Along with the candlenut, bunya nut, yellow walnut, Moreton Bay chestnut, cycad and zamia nuts, Queensland almond, black walnut, the matchbox bean and the Major crime blitz leads to arrest of top drug dealer - Feb 26, 2007 The Herald Eastern Cape,Task team members also seized a cycad worth R2 000, with Cape Nature officials issuing a R1 500 fine. “Saturation patrols were conducted in the central Frost blankets keep exotic plants cozy - Feb 25, 2007 St. Petersburg Times,Coontie, in the Zamiaceae family, predates the dinosaurs and is the only cycad now existing naturally in our country. It has a fattened, turniplike, Great garden escapes - Feb 14, 2007 Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription),Ring-tailed lemurs, tamarins and a two-toed sloth peek out from lush vegetation while vibrant-colored birds flit among cycad palms and banana trees. Beneficial insects, fish oil combat cycad scale - Dec 3, 2006 Miami Herald,INFESTED: This cycad at the Montgomery Botanical Center is imfested with scale, visible as white specks on the stalks. Q: The scale on my cycad is showing Tiny bug is killing off state's cycad trees - Nov 27, 2006 San Jose Mercury News,..."Forty percent to half (of king sagos in Orlando) are already gone," said Broome, owner of The Cycad Jungle in Lakeland and president of The Cycad Society, Tiny bug is killing off state's cycad trees - Nov 27, 2006 Tampa Bay's 10,The owner of The Cycad Jungle in Lakeland and president of The Cycad Society says the bug has spread faster in Orlando than any city he has seen. Full Text - Nov 23, 2006 Science Magazine (subscription)We hypothesized that the Chamorros may be exposed to increased levels of cycad neurotoxins, including BMAA, when they eat flying foxes and other animals Southern California Venture Capital and Private Equity Directory ... - Dec 5, 2006 dBusinessNews Los Angeles (press release),Professionals can expand their Rolodexes, and include contacts at local investment groups such as: Accuitive, Biobank, Cycad, EDF, Finistere, Great Pacific, Glass wizard to be joined by other artists - Dec 3, 2006 Miami Herald,...little gorilla glares in the Rain Forest, and hundreds of Joshua Levine's mutant frogs soon will skitter through an ancient oak near the Cycad Circle. Juveniles arrested in rash of thefts from cars - Nov 28, 2006 Portsmouth Herald News,A day after the juveniles' arrests, a Cycad Avenue resident reported at 3:10 pm that a $200 cell phone and a black fleece jacket had been stolen from an Plant theft: It's a dirty crime - Nov 28, 2006 Wilmington Morning Star,It was more than an annoyance when more than 30 cycad specimens, which are one of the oldest plant groups on earth, were stolen from the Fairchild Tropical Cobus Human: CEO, Quaestor Capital - Nov 27, 2006 Moneyweb,But there was another point as well, a suggestion that Ethan Dube and Chris Nissen had received 48m shares each when Cycad sold shares in Workforce to BEE MIAMI-DADE - Nov 24, 2006 Miami Herald,Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden: Largest tropical botanical garden in continental United States; famous for palm and cycad collections. 'Cycad raider in drag' nabbed again - Oct 10, 2006 Independent Online,Witnesses in Protea Heights in Brackenfell had reported seeing the cycad thief wearing a wig, make-up and women's clothing, including a red thong. ... Cycad thief in a thong caught in a drag net - Oct 3, 2006 Cape Argus (subscription),...spotted in the garden. "To our knowledge, Kraaifontein has only one case (of cycad theft) registered," he said. "We have, however ... Cycad Scale Is Still Among Us - Sep 20, 2006 Orlando Sentinel,Some think it's a fungus, and others just aren't sure what it is. Cycad scale, an insect pest of sagos, is still rampant in home landscapes. ... UOG professors help India protect cycads - Sep 30, 2006 Pacific Daily News,But the the population of Guam's fadang, a native cycad also known as the federico palm, is being ravaged by an invasive insect pest, the cycad aulacaspis scale ... Foreign bugs taking toll on Sago Palms - Oct 1, 2006 Monitor,..."It was a real devastating thing at the time.". The Asian cycad scales, also known as the sago palm scale, are the current threat facing the sago palms. ... Rio Grande Valley’s Sago Palms Under Deadly Insect Attack - Sep 27, 2006 AgNews,...check. Despite their name and appearance, sagos are not a palm but a cycad (pronounced SIGH-kad), among the oldest plants on earth. ... Swift result - Sep 14, 2006 Hermanus Times,A cycad has mysteriously appeared in the Fernkloof Nature Reserve garden. We suspect that this is the same cycad that was reported ... Butterfly obsession: Observers of these colorful insects say they' ... - Oct 1, 2006 Miami Herald,The atala, found only in southeastern Florida and once thought to have become extinct, uses the native cycad called coontie (Zamia integrifolia). ... Tiny insect threatens sago palms - Oct 3, 2006 San Antonio Express (subscription),The ancient shrubs are under attack, however, by the Cycad Aulacaspis scale, or Asian scale, a minuscule insect that has wiped out about half of the sago palms ... Garden Q & A - Sep 22, 2006 Syracuse Post Standard,Now you know why the nickname is universally used. Zamia is a genus in the cycad family that the "ZZ" is supposed to resemble, hence its botanical name. ... Scale insects on Sago Palms - Sep 16, 2006 Charlotte Sun-Herald,Cycad aulacaspis scale management utilizing foliar oil treatments are effective, but control may not be achieved without several applications. ... News index | RSS | News Feed Advertisements: Organic Apparel from Patagonia | Insect-repelling clothing |
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