John Allen has an addiction, and he readily admits it. He can’t live without cycads. He has planted dozens of varieties of them across his 1-acre hillside property in rural Vista. Allen bought the ...

Collective research to date regarding nutrients found in the leaves of contemporary cycad species has been inconsistent as far as data collection and narrow in scope, according to a University of Guam ...

Cycads are palm-tree like plants that dominated the Earth’s landscape some 280 million years ago when the continents were smashed up into Pangea. Back then, the planet was going through global warming ...

A tropical plant has produced male and female cones outdoors in the UK for the first time in 60 million years, in an event that botanists say is a clear indication of climate change. Two cycads (cycas ...

Coontie (Zamia integrifolia) is the only native cycad in North America and it is indigenous to South Florida. Cycads are among the oldest plants on earth, dating back 325 million years. They were so ...

University of Guam Master of Environmental Science student Benjamin Deloso attends to a Cycas micronesica specimen in the University of Guam campus cycad garden that he helped to design and implement.