Artemisia Vulgaris · @CommonMugwort
756 followers · 3794 posts · Server social.coop

Living fossil

#cycad #cycads

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Sarah Primate · @LangurLover
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Tom Parker · @Tomozaurus
282 followers · 50 posts · Server sauropods.win

These Triassic fossil cycads absolutely blow me away every time I see them.

#fossils #Palaeobotany #science #plants #cycads

Last updated 2 years ago

· @Amor_plantonico
2 followers · 1044 posts · Server toot.community

RT @Scott_Zona
Fabulous photos showing the mutualism between and . Those dark bands inside the roots are colonies of nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria. twitter.com/megetra/status/163

#cycads #cyanobacteria #cyadaceae #zamiaceae

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Tom Parker · @Tomozaurus
279 followers · 49 posts · Server sauropods.win

Jurassic vintage plants at the Monash Caufield campus (Agathis robusta, Macrozamia communis & a very large unidentified zamioid cycad)

#jurassic #botany #paleobotany #cycads #conifers

Last updated 2 years ago

· @Amor_plantonico
2 followers · 106 posts · Server toot.community

RT @BotanicsMan
CLIFF HANGERS!
I love . Here is Cycas clavicola, a relatively new Indonesian species (1999) that can grow on cliffs.
cycadlist.org/taxon.php?Taxon_

#cycads

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Soh Kam Yung · @sohkamyung
556 followers · 11288 posts · Server mstdn.io

A sign of the times. In the UK, "male and female sago palm cycads are producing cones at the same time outdoors. This means that cycads will be able to successfully reproduce at this latitude since at least the Cretaceous Period, roughly 120 million years ago."

indefenseofplants.com/blog/201

#biology #cycads #plants #globalwarming #climatechange #uk

Last updated 6 years ago