In Reply to: I like the orchid story better also. posted by J.R. on June 17, 2004 at 04:20:03:
(its a yellow variant and they are nearly always green) growing in their garden, I always take a peep through their fence at it when I am out walking the dog
Cycads are very slow growing and survived the ice age, so they are true living fossils and very primitive This one has spikes in the top like a cactus that would have cut any dinosaurs lips that tried to take a bite out of it, now 60,000,000 years after the last dinosaur the cycads spikes are still there "on alert", now thats immunity from evolution!
There is only one town in the Ryukyu islands in Japan that boasts any other examples in the World, and then only every other decade or so will produce one of this genetic variant, so its something of a treasure to say the least
I like stuff like that
Sorry I have strayed wildly off topicGrins
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- I have a neighbour with a very Rare Cycad - grinagog 04:56:10 06/17/04 (0)