cycads

Those trees to your left and right are called cycads, the prehistoric predecessors of palm trees.

Jurassic Park Crichton, Michael, 1942- 1991

Plants called cycads are among these rare "living fossils" - they have remained pretty much unchanged for more than 300 million years, but a study in

NPR Topics: News 2011

Plants called cycads are among these rare "living fossils" - they have remained pretty much unchanged for more than 300 million years, but a study in

NPR Topics: News 2011

Plants called cycads are among these rare "living fossils" - they have remained pretty much unchanged for more than 300 million years, but a study in

NPR Topics: News 2011

Plants called cycads are among these rare "living fossils" - they have remained pretty much unchanged for more than 300 million years, but a study in

NPR Topics: News 2011

The bats ate up to 2.5 times their body weight (which can be as much as a pound for the species on Guam) in food such as cycads seeds every night and, on special occasions, Chamorros ate the bats.

Scientific American 2010

Plants prohibited from import include many cycads, orchids and cacti.

The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011

Plants prohibited from import include many cycads, orchids and cacti.

The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011

I like to use tropical looking plants in our yard – usually numerous banana trees, one palm, a number of canna, tropical looking hosta, hanging baskets, and in pots an agave tree, a century plant cactus and two sago palm cycads.

The Great Tropical Plant Experiment of 2008 « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog 2008

Near the summit grow cycads—stout-trunked, palm-like, cone-bearing trees that evolved in the late Carboniferous, 300 million years ago; they were among the first plants to have both cones and seeds.

Birdology Sy Montgomery 2010