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Just like modern legumes and other plants that use nitrogen fixation, these cycads trade their sugars with bacteria in their roots in exchange for nitrogen plucked from the atmosphere.

From Science Daily • Nov. 16, 2023

As larvae, Atala butterflies exclusively feed on coonties and other cycads.

From Washington Times • Sep. 13, 2022

One such nod is an ecstatic musical tribute to cycads.

From New York Times • May 25, 2022

They come here, they said, for the caudex, begonias, cycads, caudiciforms and rare succulents and cactus that Bulaon and his girlfriend, Ernestine Segura, regularly stock.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2020

From the prevalence of cycads we may conclude that the climate of the Wealden and Lower Greensand was sub-tropical.

From The Geological Story of the Isle of Wight by Hughes, J. Cecil