Cycad

Ms. Coelho, who not only can wax poetic about the female epiphytic cycad in the Botanical Garden's New World Lowland Rainforest exhibit or the incendiary Capsicum chinense peppers in the Edible Garden area but who also spars gamely with chipmunks on her own property, in Putnam Valley couldn't have been more generous with her time or patient with my level of horticultural idiocy. ❋ Unknown (2010)

One of the long-necked creatures neatly bit off the crown of a cycad and continued its lumbering progress with huge fronds dripping from its not too capacious mouth. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The bird bends down to delicately lift an orangish fruit—the seed of a cycad? ❋ Sy Montgomery (2010)

University of Utah scientists discovered a strange reproductive method in primitive cycad plants: The plants heat up and emit a toxic odor to drive pollen-covered insects out of male cycad cones, and then use a milder odor to draw the bugs into female cones so the plants are pollinated. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Patches of dry deciduous forests, especially along the Tirupathi Hill Ranges, are known for a large number of medicinal plants and various other species of botanical interest, among which are the rare endemic cycad (Cycas beddomei) and Psilotum nudum. ❋ Unknown (2008)

These are areas with high numbers of endemic plants and some very primitive species, such as the cycad Zamia. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Other primitive plants include the cycad, Cycas rumphii, and the giant Agathis macrophylla and Dacrydium nausoriense. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Aleurites moluccana, Ficus theophrastoides, areas of bamboo (Bambusa spp.), and the gymnosperms Podocarpus neriifolius, a cycad (Cycas seemannii), and Gymnostoma vitiense. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The endemic cycad (Encephalartos turneri) is found on some of the surrounding inselbergs. ❋ Unknown (2007)

International trade threatens a range of species, from birds such as the brownheaded parrot (Poicephalus cryptoxanthus) whose populations have been severely impacted by trapping for the cagebird trade, to plants such as the rare and localised Retief cycad (Encephalartos lebomboensis), which has been decimated by cycad collectors. ❋ Unknown (2007)

He peered out from in back of a cycad at the meadow beyond … at the meadow, and at the honkers grazing on it. ❋ Dozois, Gardner (2006)

Haven't you just breathed in a nitrogen atom that was once breathed out by the third iguanodon to the left of the tall cycad tree? ❋ Dawkins, Richard, 1941- (2006)

You have just breathed in a nitrogen atom that passed through the right lung of the third iguanodon to the left of the tall cycad tree. ❋ Unknown (2005)

She will in time be able to recognise at a glance the particular kind of decayed timber in which the delicious white grub resides, will know that the nut of the cycad has to be immersed in ❋ Unknown (2003)

With a torch of grass he fires the tent and watches, and gathers dry cycad fronds to ignite the smouldering blankets. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Parks board special investigation head Herman Erasmus called on wealthy cycad collectors to buy their plants from reserves or the authorities. ❋ Unknown (1997)

Seven of the lembomboensis cycads were implanted with microchips and were tracked from the Mananga cycad reserve by undercover investigators monitoring the cycad syndicate. ❋ Unknown (1997)

"For example, offences concerning certain cycad species have an unlimited fine in Natal but a maximum fine of R750 in Gauteng." ❋ Unknown (1996)