Sentences with phrase «modjadji cycad»

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The Fern Room's lichens, ferns and cycads, some of which are more than 250 years old, require a hot, steamy environment and already, with the summer breeze blowing through the exposed greenhouse, the plants are suffering.

Plants were evolving fast during the Mesozoic, with the rise of cycads, conifers, and especially the angiosperms or flowering plants in the Cretaceous.

The toxin, they proposed, was «biomagnified» in cycad - eating flying foxes — fruit bats.

The seeds were meticulously washed to remove toxins, such as beta - methylamino - L - alanine (BMAA), produced by cyanobacteria that inhabit cycad roots.

Flowering plants evolved from extinct plants related to conifers, ginkgos, cycads, and seed ferns.

But Cox and Sacks argued the lack of indigenous cycads in Samoa meant the imports didn't contain cycad toxins, and that Chamorros were no longer being exposed to biomagnified BMAA.

The book roughly follows a chronological path, starting with such treasures as the world's oldest pot plant — a cycad from an ancient group that outlived the dinosaurs and has been housed at Kew since 1775.

Chamorros made tortillas using flour ground from the seeds of cycads — plants often confused for ferns or palms and distantly related to both.

An answer came when he traced the origin of the BMAA in cycad seeds to cyanobacteria growing in the plant's roots.

A Chamorro, he calculated, would have to eat almost a ton of cycad flour per month to get an equivalent dose.

Perhaps some compound in the cycads was to blame.

Cox was intrigued by the diet of those bats: They feasted on cycad seeds.

Among the plants and trees that exist in our contemporary landscape, angiosperms include almost everything except conifers, ferns, cycads, and ginkgoes.

Cycads (c, e) are typically stout with a crown of large, stiff evergreen leaves.

Along the banks of the more stable rivers stand dawn redwood, water pine, and a variety of angiosperms, whereas farther away, claiming higher, drier ground, are forests of cycads, ferns, and conifers.

Second, not all plants and trees were affected: Ferns, conifers, and the palmlike plants known as cycads lived to see another geological era.

The group includes conifers, cycads and ginkgos.

The male cycad plant's temperature transitions lead to odor changes that first attract and then repel tiny insects, called thrips.

And the comings and goings of the thrips fertilize the female cycads.

While most gymnosperms depend on wind pollination, cycads long ago evolved a relationship with beetles.

The most familiar gymnosperms are conifers, but this cycad is also a gymnosperm, meaning «naked seed plant.»

There are an estimated 270,000 known species of angiosperms, or flowering plants, but only about 900 species of gymnosperms, which are nonflowering plants such as conifers, cycads, and ginkgoes.

«Philippine coastal zone research reveals tropical cyclone disruption of nutrient cycling: How cycads weather the storms.»

Its case is far from unique; the IUCN's Red List classes an appalling 63 per cent of cycad species as threatened.

The Natal grass cycad is particularly poisonous, says John Donaldson of the South African National Biodiversity Institute.

The toxins in its leaves are used to defend more than just itself: the colourful leopard magpie moth (see picture) feeds on cycads as a caterpillar in order to lace its body with macrozamin, making it a deeply unpalatable meal for any would - be predators.

Cycads are the oldest seed - bearing plants on Earth.

A biped, it probably moved through conifer forests in a herd, shearing off bits of ferns and palmlike cycads with its serrated, spatulate teeth, suggests Leal.

Cox, a researcher in Guam in the 1990s, hypothesized that BMAA worked its way up the food chain from the cycad seeds to bats to the Chamorro who hunted them.

Gymnosperms are represented by just four divisions: Pinophyta (conifers), Cycadophyta (cycads), Gnetophyta (gnetophytes), and Ginkgophyta (Ginkgo).

Great plant - eating dinosaurs roaming the earth, feeding on lush ferns and palm - like cycads and bennettitaleans... smaller but vicious carnivores stalking the great herbivores... oceans full of fish, squid, and coiled ammonites, plus great ichthyosaurs and long - necked plesiosaurs... vertebrates taking to the air, like the pterosaurs and the first birds.

The results are broken down into five broad groups of plants: monocots, including palms, orchids and grasses (with the major grain crops among them); bryophytes, including mosses and liverworts; pteridophytes, including ferns; gymnosperms, including conifers and cycads; and dicots, encompassing other plants.

Rather, conifers were the dominant flora along with ginkgo, cycads, tree ferns, and horsetail rushes.

The ALS / PDC syndrome of Guam and the cycad hypothesis.

The ALS / PDC syndrom of Guam and the cycad hypothesis.

They move here to grow petunias and marigolds and palms and cycads and cactus and self - propagating succulents and blood oranges and Meyer lemons and sweet limes and, above all, avocados.

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Alfalfa Aloe Vera Amaryllis Apple seeds Apple leaf croton Apricot pit Asparagus fern Autumn crocus Avocado (both the fruit and pit) Azalea Baby's breath Bittersweet Bird of paradise Branching ivy Buckey Buddhist pine Caladium Calla lily Castor bean Ceriman Charming dieffenbachia Cherry (seeds and wilting leaves) Chinese evergreen Christmas rose Cineraria Clematis Cordatum Corn plant Cornstalk plant Croton Cuban laurel Cutleaf philodendron Cycads Cyclamen Daffodil Devil's ivy Dieffenbachia Dracaena palm Dragon tree Dumb cane Elaine Elephant ears Emerald feather English ivy Fiddle - leaf fig Florida beauty Foxglove Fruit salad plant Geranium German ivy Giant dumb cane Glacier ivy Gold dieffenbachia Gold dust dracaena Golden pothos

Examples of the cycad family include Cycad (Cycas cirinalis), Japanese cycad (Cycad revolute), Coontie plant (Zamia pumila), and Cardbord palm (Zamia furfuracea).

Sago palms, also called cycad palms are very poisonous.

Sago palm (Cycas revoluta) is a member of the cycad family.

Sago palms (Cycad species) can cause liver damage, especially if the nut portion of the plant is consumed.

There is a large camp housing 60 people (Indulo) and a smaller camp for 30 people (Cycad).

Among the mixed bushveld, there are rare cycads, yellowwood and cedar trees, all of which make for a luxurious vista.

Alive with trees and a place to experience Sour Lowveld Bushveld and cycads, spend a day here easily.

Picnic at The Knoll and Witches Falls, tasting some of the award winning cheeses from Witches Chase, see cycads at Zamia Grove or check out the landscape on a lookout.

Unusual cycads which are relics of plants from 150 million years ago grow on the mountain, and the rare Albert's lyrebird, the world's largest skink and birdwing butterflies are some of the natives you could meet on a Tamborine visit.

The gorge has more than 500 plant species, including orchids, proteas and various cycads; there are over 255 bird species, including the fish eagle and Cape vulture, and the rare samango monkey makes the gorge its home.

Cycad Rock Fishing Lodge is located on the Jozini Dam in KwaZulu Natal and offers accommodation ideally suited for fishing enthusiasts.