The cycadssays: persevere, steadfast, wealth and longevity, good lucky for you.Different cycads dioecious, flower shape, male flowers long elliptic, standing in the attractive of green, brown;Female flowers oblate, light yellow, close to the stem.

The cycads alias

Cycads and PND tail-on Manila, Manila, cycas, avoid fire, etc., among the people, the name "cycas" use morer, one is because of its wood density is big, the water is heavy, heavy as iron is named;Another story because of its growth needs a large number of iron, even the decline of the dying cycads, as long as the nailed into the trunk and can come back to life, to repeat, so name.And, cycadaceae plants is the world's oldest seed plants, with dinosaurs dominated the earth at the same time, by geologists as "living fossil" plants.

The origin of the PND tail-on Manila

According to legend a long time ago, the south has a beautiful golden phoenix, was caught by the a butler.The man put the golden phoenix in cages, the best food, feed it all means to golden phoenix feather for him to see, but you just don't show the feathers, not sing nor dance, this is really the officer person dander up, and then lit a torch golden phoenix burned alive.The fireAfter the fire the ashes of the incredibly long out of a small tree.People praised golden phoenix courage of unyielding spirit, and saw that the tree as hard as iron, so called "cycas".And this cycas leaves like a golden phoenix tail, so also called it "PND tail-on Manila.

The legend of cycads says

One of the eight people of tang and song dynasty, su dongpo, strong integrity, high rank fairly clean and politics have sinned against the treacherous court official in, when be relegated to the hainan island.Su dongpo left hainan, hainan sent many gifts to him, and he declined it, only the cycas back to the central plains.Since then, cycas to prosper in the north of China.For this brings back cycas is su dongpo, people call it "cycads".It says from su dongpo "firmness not move".

In one thousand, open "flower" credibility of cycas?

As the saying goes "cycas flowering, the dumb man to talk", "one thousand cycas opened flower" or "flower cycas Ma Changjiao", metaphor of a long and difficult things, there is not even possible.But in fact is not the case, especially in tropical regions, more than 20 years of cycads can open "flower" almost every year.Cycas belong to the gymnosperms, only the root, stem, leaf and seed, what we call the flower of cycas, actually is the seed of it.

Cycas, characteristic of the rare plant

South botanical garden has three huge cycas, one male and two females, in the last century from the wild introduction, in the late 80 s, the oldest cycas is ever discovered in yunnan province, nearly one thousand years old, by the broad masses of Chinese and foreign visitors known as "king of cycas", is a rare treasure.. They learn named grate tooth Sue Cycas pectinata Griff, at present, the plant is on the verge of extinction, by the state as a secondary to protect plants.