Staffan Widstrand / Wild Wonders of China / Cycad (Cycas sp) growing in East Lake Greenway park, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Staffan Widstrand / Wild Wonders of China / Close up of some details of Cycad (Cycas sp) East Lake Greenway park, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Piotr Naskrecki / Cycad (Cycas sp) trunks are covered with old leaf petioles, and special protective leaves known as cataphylls, South Africa

Piotr Naskrecki / Cycad (Cycas sp) leaves with defensive spikes, South Africa

Piotr Naskrecki / Cycad (Cycas sp) immature female cone, South Africa

Piotr Naskrecki / Cycad (Cycas sp) new leaf with burned trunk after fire, South Africa

Piotr Naskrecki / Cycad (Cycas sp) with mature male cones, Kirstenbosch Garden, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Piotr Naskrecki / Cycad (Cycas sp) new leaf, Modjadji Cycad Reserve, Limpopo, South Africa

Piotr Naskrecki / Sago Cycad (Cycas revoluta) on karst rock formations, Hedo, Okinawa, Japan

Piotr Naskrecki / Sago Cycad (Cycas revoluta) female pseudocone, Hedo, Okinawa, Japan

Piotr Naskrecki / Sago Cycad (Cycas revoluta) trees on karst formation, Hedo, Okinawa, Japan

Piotr Naskrecki / Sago Cycad (Cycas revoluta) plants on karst rock formations, Hedo, Okinawa, Japan

Piotr Naskrecki / Sago Cycad (Cycas revoluta) plants on karst rock formations, Hedo, Okinawa, Japan

Piotr Naskrecki / Sago Cycad (Cycas revoluta) female pseudocone, a loose aggregation of sporophylls, Hedo, Okinawa, Japan

Piotr Naskrecki / Sago Cycad (Cycas revoluta) young leaf, Hedo, Okinawa, Japan

Piotr Naskrecki / Sago Cycad (Cycas revoluta) trees on karst formation, Hedo, Okinawa, Japan

Piotr Naskrecki / Common Woolly Legs (Lachnocnema bibulus) and ants collecting honeydew produced by aphids feeding on cycad, Modjadji Cycad Reserve, Limpopo, South Africa

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Sago Cycad (Cycas revoluta) male showing leaves and cone, southeast Asia

ZSSD / Sago Cycad (Cycas revoluta) male showing leaves and cone, native to southern Japan

ZSSD / Sago Cycad (Cycas revoluta) male showing leaves and cone, native to southern Japan

Patricio Robles Gil / Poor Man's Cycad (Encephalartos villosus) showing male cones, Greater St Lucia Park, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa

Patricio Robles Gil / Looking down into Cycad plant {Cycas sp} Mexico

Michael & Patricia Fogden / MacDonnell Ranges Cycad (Macrozamia macdonnellii) growing in the MacDonnell Range, Garden of Eden, King's Canyon, Watarrka National Park, Northern Territory, Australia

Pete Oxford / Male flower of cycad palm {Cycas sp} Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China {Cycas pectinata?}

Thoswan Devakul / Cycad {Cycas sp} grows after forest fire, Huai Kha Khaeng WS, Thailand.

Pete Oxford / Cycads (Cycas sp.). Grande Comore, Comoros, Indian Ocean

Tony Heald / Cycad, new growth after fire {Cycas sp} Northern Territory, Australia

Piotr Naskrecki / Sago Cycad (Cycas revoluta) on karst rock formations, Hedo, Okinawa, Japan