Sentences with phrase «with cycads»

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.

Escape from the city and relax in a pleasant atmosphere that is surrounded by a swimming pool, koi pond and garden gazebo in a lush garden covered with cycads, palms and flowers.

Not exact matches

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

The flora and fauna found in Kakadu National Park is diverse, with pockets of rainforest, paperbarks, pandanus and cycads, and wetlands dotted with lotus lilies.

The banks are laden with stunning indigenous vegetation and ancient cycads that add to the already incredible atmosphere.

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).