A Florida native almost wiped out by the Florida arrowroot flour industry in early the 1900's, the Zamia floridana (Coontie) is making a come back. Rare in the wild, it remains on the Florida ...

Mysterious living Jurassic fossils, beautiful landscape plants with exotic characteristics, nearly wiped out by the animal-cracker industry, now making a great comeback - what's not to like! The ...

Coontie, or Zamia floridana, is an outstanding ornamental shrub that grows slow and low. December’s plant of the month makes a great focal point in garden beds. This native cycad features long-stemmed ...

The sago palm looked like it was pregnant. It was growing a large velvety golden globe as large as a basketball right in the “belly” of the plant. Each of the homes where I have lived came with ...

1. The young staminate and ovulate strobili can be distinguished by the difference in breadth, number of sporophylls, and number of meristematic points. 2. There is probably a single archesporial cell ...

American Journal of Science, May.—Notes on living Cycads, by G. R. Wieland. A study of Zamia floridana. Particular attention is drawn to the presence on one of the cones of a pinnule of normal form ...

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