#cycad

Cycas panzhihuaensis

The Chinese cycads are not as well-known or as widely grown as Cycas revoluta, the Sago Palm (which comes from Japan). Cycas panzhihuaensis is native to Sichuan and Yunnan Provinces, and it was not officially named until 1979. Our plant is a female, as shown by the rounded cone (male ones are more elongated).

Outer Wilds vines pt 5

When I design a Nomai I look up the plant they're named after and try to base their appearance on that a little. :>

Also, there may not be giraffes in OW, but the vine just didn't feel right with anything else...

Escarpment cycad (Encephalartos brevifoliolatus), Woolly cycad (E. heenanii), Cloud mountain cycad (E. nubimontanus), Parlota cycad (E. relictus), Wood's cycad (E. woodii)

this collective of cycad species once grew across various parts of South Africa and Eswatini

all were extirpated from the wild due to overharvesting and poaching by plant collectors

individuals only persist in the very ornamental plant trade that caused their extinction in the first place, leaving a thread of hope for future reintroduction

[Piet Vorster , $.Msiyane , Winfred Ngwenya , George James Mann , mtomazic]

Latest bloom at Missouri Botanical Gardens inside The Climatron ₍ᐢ. .ᐢ₎𖹭