The only known Wood’s cycad plants in existence are male, and these can be cloned to produce additional male specimens. But to reproduce naturally—and to keep the threatened species from going ...

Only a single, male specimen of the Wood's cycad (Encephalartos woodii) has ever been discovered in the wild. In 1895, botanist John Medley Wood found the solitary plant in what is now the Ngoye ...

This has been the case with the armored scale known as cycad aulacaspis scale, which invaded Guam in 2003, Rota in 2007, and has ravaged the only cycad native to Micronesia, Cycas micronesica ...

The white cycad aulacaspis scale infests cycad leaves to cause early leaf death. A new study has shown that the infestations also increase the speed of leaf litter decomposition. Credit must be ...

However, unlike the dinosaurs, somehow a few groups of cycads survived to the present. A new study appearing Nov. 16 in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution has concluded that the cycad species that ...

The cycad garden garden has been established over an area of around 0.75 hectare. It presently houses around 20 different species like the endemic Cycas annaikalensis from Kerala, Cycas ...

Council contractors have relocated a huge cycad to the tree's new home at the Cairns Botanic Gardens. Picture: Cairns Regional Council The cycad was dug out of the ground from Patience St in Manoora.