Council contractors have relocated a huge cycad to the tree's new home at the Cairns Botanic Gardens. Picture: Cairns Regional Council The cycad was dug out of the ground from Patience St in Manoora.

The fadang is a species of cycads, an ancient group of plants that has survived many world events that have led to extinction of many other groups of organisms, according to a UOG news release.

This has been the case with the armored scale known as cycad aulacaspis scale, which invaded Guam in 2003, Rota in 2007, and has ravaged the only cycad native to Micronesia, Cycas micronesica ...

The only known Wood’s cycad plants in existence are male, and these can be cloned to produce additional male specimens. But to reproduce naturally—and to keep the threatened species from going ...

Cycads are an ancient group of plants that have been around since the age of dinosaurs. They were dominant plants at that time, but most are currently considered endangered. While there are more ...

A national park site can lose NPS status: Here’s how that happens He also had a special admiration for fossilized cycads, even placing some among his backyard plants at his Connecticut home.

Cycads, a group of gymnosperms that can resemble miniature palm trees (like the popular sago palm houseplant), were long thought to be “living fossils,” a group that had evolved minimally since the ...

I'm like, 'What is that? That is amazing'," he said. The odd-looking prickly plant — Encephalartos horridus — is a member of the cycad family and sparked an interest in the species that would ...