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Interesting Cycads article
Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2011 9:17 pm
by Conifers
Here. Seems they're not so ancient as we all thought!
Re: Interesting Cycads article
Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2011 10:37 pm
by GoggleboxUK
Interesting stuff, thanks fr the link.
"My research shows that every cycad species that we looked at is only 10 million years old," she said.
Still seems pretty old to me. Bruce Forsythe isn't even 90 yet and look how ancient he is!
Re: Interesting Cycads article
Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2011 1:00 pm
by flounder
obviously they're not an old plant........................mines only two years old
Re: Interesting Cycads article
Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 5:53 pm
by Matcycas7
Which one is the oldest among these?
300-year-old Eastern Cape giant cycad at Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam in this link
http://translate.google.co.in/translate ... md%3Dimvns
OR
Encephalartos altensteinii at Kew Gardens in this link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0mduBlbddk