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  • The avenue of Cycas trees (_Cycas circinalis_), once the admiration of all visitors, and which for beauty and singularity was unmatched in any tropical garden, had been swept away by the same unsparing hand which had destroyed the teak, mahogany, clove, nutmeg, and cinnamon groves.

    Himalayan Journals — Complete 1864

  • Well known endemic plants include Gingko Gingko biloba and Davidia Davidia involucrata var. vilmoriniana, four species of the blue poppy Mecanopsis, and two species of Cycas.

    Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas, China 2008

  • Patches of dry deciduous forests, especially along the Tirupathi Hill Ranges, are known for a large number of medicinal plants and various other species of botanical interest, among which are the rare endemic cycad (Cycas beddomei) and Psilotum nudum.

    Deccan thorn scrub forests 2008

  • Cycas revoluta leaves uncurling, originally uploaded by Amelia PS.

    Spring Essentials - Part Two: Spring Greens Ayala Sender 2008

  • Cycas revoluta leaves uncurling, originally uploaded by Amelia PS.

    Archive 2008-04-01 Ayala Sender 2008

  • Upper montane forest trees include Agathis philippinensis, Dacrydium pectinatum, Podocarpus polystachyus, Gnetum latifolium, Cycas wadei, Cinnamomum rupestre, Nepenthes philippinensis, and Angiopteris spp.

    Palawan rain forests 2008

  • Many of the trees in these broadleaf forests such as Gnetum montanus, Cycas pectinata, Cyathea spinulosa (tree ferns), Rauwolfia serpentina, Pandanus nepalensis, Calamus lalifolius, C. leptospadix, Phoenix humilis, and Phoenix sylvestris have become very rare in Nepal.

    Himalayan subtropical broadleaf forests 2007

  • Near the coast the typical dry forests give way to stands of Cycas circinalis, the only gymnosperm typical of the ecoregion.

    New Caledonia dry forests 2007

  • Other primitive plants include the cycad, Cycas rumphii, and the giant Agathis macrophylla and Dacrydium nausoriense.

    Fiji tropical moist forests 2007

  • Aleurites moluccana, Ficus theophrastoides, areas of bamboo (Bambusa spp.), and the gymnosperms Podocarpus neriifolius, a cycad (Cycas seemannii), and Gymnostoma vitiense.

    Fiji tropical dry forests 2007

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