https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/06/cycad-sex/ Wed, 07 Oct 2009 06:34:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/06/cycad-sex/#comment-547820 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 06:34:18 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/06/cycad-sex/#comment-547820 Terrific tale. Thanks.
I’d like to pick up the story for my site on amazing plants, plant/animal relationships, medical botany, etc.:
http://www.plantworldnews.com

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/06/cycad-sex/#comment-547819 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:38:46 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/06/cycad-sex/#comment-547819 Careful with that cycad – I believe a lot of them have poisonous seeds, which can cause weird neurological symptoms. Cattle in Australia used to get paralysis from grazing on a species there, and I believe some people in the South Pacific have suffered symptoms very like Alzheimer’s (sp?) disease. Presumably the flesh of the fruit is OK if the wildlife and the locals eat it, but still…

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