Cycas plataphylla
Cycadaceae,
Irvinebank, Far North Queensland,
Australia.
December 2017
#wildoz #ozflora #Cycas #Cycadaceae #ozplants #Australiannature #botany

Photo of a garden in which an acaulescent cycad is present. It’s leaves have pinnatifid leaflets, so each leaf has a fox-tail appearance. Some bamboo and garden chairs are visible in the background.

This is Cycas multipinnata of China & Vietnam. I’ve never seen this species in the wild, but I was lucky to see it in a private garden in South Florida. Check out those leaves! They are so unlike the leaves of most Cycas species I know. #cycads #Cycadaceae #Botany #PlantScience 🌾🧪

Photo of two men walking through tall grass and weeds toward a towering, palm-like cycad.

Doing fieldwork in the Solomon Islands in 1995 was great fun. Seeing this towering (and very old?) Cycas bougainvilleana on Guadalcanal was thrilling! #cycads #Cycadaceae #Botany #PlantScience 🌾🧪

High-contrast photo of a palm-like cycad with stiff, pinnate leaves growing in a clearing on the edge of a forest.

We spotted this magnificent Cycas rumphii in Papua, Indonesia (the west end of the island of New Guinea), in 1995 while exploring for palms. Apologies for the over-exposed, scanned slide. This, boys and girls, was in the days before digital cameras. #Cycadaceae #cycads #Botany #PlantScience 🌾🧪