Sentences with phrase «as cycads»

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Much of the island remains preserved as natural bushland and is home to an array of beautiful flora and fauna including gumtrees, paperbarks, palms, pines and ancient cycads.

Attractions in the area include the Cycad hiking trails, Middelburg Dam, Middelburg Nature Reserve as well as the historical village of Botshabelo.

Close to Modjadjikloof is the unique «Modjadji Cycad Reserve» it is named after the successive rain - making queens who have inhabited the area since the 16th century, guarding the ancient cycads., the 305 - ha reserve features the world's largest concentration of a single - species cycad, also known as the «Modjadji palm&raCycad Reserve» it is named after the successive rain - making queens who have inhabited the area since the 16th century, guarding the ancient cycads., the 305 - ha reserve features the world's largest concentration of a single - species cycad, also known as the «Modjadji palm&racycad, also known as the «Modjadji palm».

The other lineage (known as Euphyllophyta) includes two major clades: the spermatophytes or seed plants (including more than 250,000 species of angiosperms [flowering plants], conifers, cycads, gnetophytes, and the Gingko) and the monilophytes or ferns (sensu lato, including the horsetails, whisk ferns, and eusporangiate and leptosporangiate ferns, with most of the roughly 12,000 monilophyte species being leptosporangiate ferns).

And the scientists say that since 90 % of all tree species on Earth are tropical trees, trees deserve to be considered along with cycads, amphibians and corals as those groups with the highest proportion of threatened species.