#cycad plants

[daddys-radioactive-milk]

I personally think Arcade Gannon knows Jack shit about plants. You could toss terms like eudicotyledon and monocotyledon and he’d get them, but if you ask him about what makes a cycad not a fern or to tell the difference between spotted spurge and common purslane he’d have no right answers. He could tell you what the world’s largest, likely oldest, tree is, but he could not tell you how to spot the difference between a Douglas fir and an incense cedar is. He doesn’t know there’s more than one type of cypress and doesn’t know that common juniper doesn’t have berries (on account of being a gymnosperm). He doesn’t know how plant cell walls thicken.

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Thursday 19 January 2023

Endemic to southern Malawi and Mozambique Encephalartos gratus (cycad) can be found growing in wet forests, ravines and open savanna. The plants are dioecious (separate female and male plants) with orange-brown female cones and green cones with flecks of brown on the scales for male cones.

Jill Raggett

[eunnuiphyte]

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ID: Cycad

[angelnumber27]

sago cycads 🌿

[thebotanicalarcade]

n5_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr: Curtis's botanical magazine.. London ; New York [etc.] :Academic Press [etc.]. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/469557

[lost-lycaon]

The cycad garden of Babylonstoren is a magnificent collection, including three Wood's Cycad, now extinct in the wild.

[reptimoe]

Sexy pics of some very sexy plants

[namorailecec]

New giant cycad from Oaxaca, México

[woodlnds]

I just bought this gift for myself, a beautiful young sago cycad (Cycas revoluta) and I’m so excited! I’ve been wanting one for a long time now and this one happened to catch my eye at the garden center near me, they’re rare and hard to come by locally.

For those who don’t know, they are among the most basal group of plants still living today, and originated almost 300 million years ago. They have a lifespan of 200+ years and can get 15” feet tall. It definitely gives me jurassic park vibes, and I’m happy to have it. I have named it Little Foot :’)

[notsayingthisright]

[vianna-aka-darkness-ridge]

Encephalartos woodii

Some practice art, I was bored

So I decided to draw and write some stuff about Woodii's Cycad or Encaphalartos woodii

and it looks like shit, plants are so freaking hard to draw, may retry this with digital later

anyways, have an amazing day 🩷💙🤍💙🩷

art by me

medium pencils and fountain pen on 140 GSM A4 paper

check out my other socials! https://linktr.ee/Vianna.Alicia

[cselandscapearchitect]

Resilient Beauty: Cycad Species Thriving in the Low Desert Landscapes

Several cycad species can thrive in the low desert regions, offering a touch of prehistoric beauty and resilience to arid environments. Here are a few cycad species that are well-suited for the low desert: Dioon edule (Dwarf Dioon) Cycas revoluta (Sago Palm) Encephalartos ferox (Zulu Cycad) Zamia furfuracea (Cardboard Palm) Cycas panzhihuaensis (Panzhihua Cycad) Dioon edule Dioon edule,…

[thebotanicalarcade]

[cycadelic]

Well, since the name of the blog is Cycadelic (can you believe that name was available? Because I can't. What have you been doing, plant people?), I feel it only appropriate to kick things off with a post on cycads.

That wild-looking palm-like thing in the picture above is a cycad. They're not palms. They're more closely related to pines and other conifers, and are grouped within the gymnosperms. (Palms, incidentally, are technically speaking grasses, albeit very weird grasses.)

Cycads are long-lived and start life looking more like a fern with a big, if short, trunk. Over time, they get taller and assume a more tree-like appearance. They reproduce via cones. They're a very old plant lineage; of the seven known cycad families, five are extinct.

I made one attempt at having a potted cycad, and I managed to kill it unfortunately because I really didn't understand what I was doing. That's not to say they don't make good houseplants. Given the right conditions, they can thrive. They need a good amount of light and humidity, which was just unfortunately not something I could offer my cycad at the time with my then-living-arragement. The oldest potted plant on record is a cycad living at Kew in the UK; it was brought back from South Africa by Francis Masson in 1775 and has been thriving ever since, although it's now rather elderly and has to be propped up as some cycads tend to droop over as they get bigger and heavier. Interestingly, it produced cones only once, in 1815. And hey, I can appreciate that. Producing cones takes a lot of energy and its not like it needs to make new cycads in its current home. A 209-year vacation sounds pretty good to me.

Cycads live all over the world, but they're sadly in decline, with around a dozen species severely threatened. As they're a very old sort of plant, having existed concurrent with dinosaurs, this isn't super surprising, and it's pretty cool we still have any around at all.

If you're planning on buying a cycad as a houseplant, do your research first and be sure it's an ethically grown specimen that isn't wild-harvested. This should be the case with all potted plants, but especially those that have fragile populations and often live in equally fragile ecosystems.

[gary-only]

[bunjywunjy]

Since you seem to have an encyclopedic knowledge of everything, would you happen to have some favourite dinosaur-era plants? I'm getting a tattoo of a (feathered) raptor and want to surround it with era-appropriate plant life!

I'm a big fan of cycads, personally, and they're even still around today!

nothing can kill these things.