cycad , auch: cycas

It turned out that some of the cycads he bought were illegal.

It is considered to be one of the most popular cultivated cycads.

The plant spoke to him, as cycads do to those who come under their spell.

Cycads formed the second largest group until about 120 Ma.

It is the only genus currently known in the cycad family.

He caught up with James as the latter was disappearing into the cycads.

The four spread out to the sides and disappeared amid the cycads.

They are among the few butterflies that breed on plants of the cycad family.

There is a collection of cycads which look like palms but are unrelated.

The surrounding formal garden includes also more than a century old cycads.

Cycads are primitive plants that have existed for nearly 200 million years.

After all, a purloined cycad in a garden is alive.

They would have been an adaptation for eating tough vegetation such as cycads.

Flowering plants began about 120 Ma and by the end of the period had taken over from the cycads.

Another group of plants adopting a similar strategy to the cycads arose at about the same time.

Cycads have a cylindrical trunk which usually does not branch.

As she entered the room with the dresser, the cycad leaf caught her eye.

One group among these plants, the cycads, survives today and shows the development at a particularly dramatic stage.

Existing cycads, only one Section 10 is about 110 species of plants known as "living fossils."

Many populations now exist in suburban areas with ornamental cycads.

In 1980, construction of a highway through the site uncovered more fossil cycads.

"I don't want someone cruising the streets and stealing my cycads."

The 300-year-old cycad is possibly the world's oldest potted plant.

Cycads can be cut into pieces to make new plants, or by direct planting of the seeds.

Cycads were significant members of the state's fossil flora.