• The cardboard palm (Zamia furfuracea) is neither cardboard nor a palm; it’s a cycad. Most cycads have short woody trunks and large evergreen leaves. The cardboard palm is dioecious — which means ...

Brace yourself for a hot story about plant sex. Harvard researchers have discovered that cycads—one of the oldest living lineages of seed plants—heat up their reproductive organs to attract beetle ...

A mysterious chemical signal enters the ether and the cycad weevil, tranes internatus, and the cycad blue butterfly, theclinesthes onycha, know that the time is right for them to lay their eggs, and ...