Cycas

Herbert was not mistaken: he broke the stem of a cycas, which was composed of a glandulous tissue, containing a quantity of floury pith, traversed with woody fiber, separated by rings of the same substance, arranged concentrically. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Granite House with an ample supply of cycas stems. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Cyrus Harding and Herbert, after having examined that part of the Far West where the cycas grew, took their bearings, and returned to Granite House, where they made known their discovery. ❋ Unknown (2005)

“It is a ‘cycas revoluta,’ of which I have a picture in our dictionary of Natural History!” said ❋ Unknown (2005)

A conservatory built in the center of the building on the south side contained a very interesting collection of orchids, cycas, and some tree ferns from the Philippines. ❋ Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission (N/A)

We directed our steps to that part of the town where the better class seemed to reside, in cool, shady lanes, the houses embowered in large-leaved tropical trees, cocoa-nut, banana, bread-fruit, calabash, and other palms, with cycas and tree-ferns with stems some fifteen feet high. ❋ Samuel Smiles (1858)

"I found it amazing to have banana plants in my bedroom and soon I was growing exotic things like strelitzia and cycas." ❋ Unknown (2011)

In the burning plains that rise but little above the level of the sea, reign the families of the banana, the cycas, and the palm, of which the number of species comprised in the flora of tropical regions has been so wonderfully increased in the present day by the zeal of botanical travelers. ❋ Alexander Von Humboldt (1814)

Cycas simplicipinna (this name means the undivided leaflet cycas which makes no sense at all (as most have undivided leaflets) until you learn it was split out of one of the few that does C. micholitzii); ❋ Unknown (2009)

Deep in the mountains in a nature reserve, we saw Cycas taiwaniana, a special species of cycas, and next to this we saw a large piece of land approved for mining. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A large number of broad-leaved evergreen shrubs thrive in the South, such as: fetter bush, _Andromeda floribunda_ (A); some of the palms, as palmettoes (A) and chamærops; cycas and zamia (A) far South; _Abelia grandiflora; _ strawberry tree, _Arbutus Unedo; _ ardisias and aucubas, both grown under glass in the North; azaleas and rhododendrons (not only ❋ Unknown (1906)