Science Fair 1: Cycad Reproduction (Black) APRIL This is a plant on

This is a plant on its own roots

while others perceive colors that we cannot

and they grow practically everywhere

In Memory of Cactus Store Echo Park : 2014-2023

Science Fair 1: Cycad Reproduction (Black) APRIL This is a plant onCycad biologist, Irene Terry, coined the term hot stinky sex to describe the manipulative mating dance that is unique to these Jurassic gymnosperms (and when we say Jurassic we mean it Cycads predate dinosaurs and are still found all over the world). It begins when a horny male cycad seduces its sex slave pollinators by wafting a redolent musk from its pollen engorged cone. Unable to resist, the tantalized bugs follow this sexual miasma into the