Gymnosperm means “naked seed” and comes from the same Greek root as gymnastics, which means to exercise naked. This group of plants is so named because the seeds are not enclosed inside an ovary, ...

Plant Systematics and Evolution, Vol. 217, No. 1/2 (1999), pp. 81-99 (19 pages) Some aspects of pollen cytology at dispersal were studied in 12 species of gymnosperms. The pollen grains differed in: 1 ...

The Mostly Male theory is the first to use evidence from gene phylogenies, genetics, modern plant morphology and fossils to explain the evolutionary origin of flowers. It proposes that flower ...

ARGUABLY the world’s weirdest plant, Welwitschia mirabilis is a tangled mass of shredded, fraying leaves in the Namib desert. For a thousand years, perhaps more, it grows just two long leaves, which ...

Today in Illinois, we have very few native conifers; the fact that these cones can only be found where humans have planted ...

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The Sago palm, Cycas revoluta, of course, is not a palm at all, but a gymnosperm, and thus more closely related to pine trees than palms. The botanist in me wants to remind you that gymnosperms are an ...

Trees have taken a bashing since Christmas with storms Brendan, Ciara and Dennis following on each other's heels in quick succession. To add to their problems, the high levels of rainfall resulted in ...