Pre-dating the dinosaur era by 75 million years, the #Cycad is now in a prickly situation for its survival!🌿 Our researcher Dr James Clugston James Clugston, PhD spoke to Rosemary Bolger about how botanists are working to save these plants ⬇️ abc.net.au/news/2022-08-1…

Pre-dating the dinosaur era by 75 million years, the #Cycad is now in a prickly situation for its #survival!🌿 Our researcher Dr James Clugston James Clugston, PhD spoke to Rosemary Bolger about how botanists are working to save these plants. abc.net.au/news/2022-08-1…

🚨 A new What The Flora!? episode is going live on YouTube at 3.30pm 🌞🌿 Discover some impressive ways Australian plant species have learnt to adapt to our hot landscape and join the live Q&A with scientists James Clugston, PhD and Russell Barrett ▶️: bit.ly/3d8JEVn

Catch What The Flora!? co-host @cycadales and Systematic Botanist Russell Barrett talk #eccentric plant #adaptations in the new 'Adapting To Australia' episode on our YouTube! 😎🌿 🔔📲 Subscribe here: bit.ly/2JaBGtP

Yesterday I went to go and see one of my favourite cycads. Cycas platyphylla in habitat! An amazing plant and a great location.

It's no easy task to #SavePlants when you are looking at over 7,000 plant species in our Living Collections.😵🌱Watch What The Flora!? ⬇️ bit.ly/3MFtOip

First day running the ASBS conference for students and early career researchers has been amazing and exhilarating. The Australian Botanic Garden Australasian Systematic Botany Society (ASBS) @hsauquet_rbgsyd. This conference shows what great research happens here in Australia.

Second day if the ASBS conference for students and early career researchers is as good as day one. Well done to all the speakers. The Australian Botanic Garden Australasian Systematic Botany Society (ASBS) @hsauquet_rbgsyd.

The Petford Blue Sago (Cycas platypylla). Which occurs arounds the Petford region in Queensland. The species has adapted to a very dry and arid climate and due to habitat loss has become endangered. youtu.be/4w_jWICsuB4

🌈✨Colours and clones are just two strategies plants use to reproduce. Learn about plant diversity and marvel at over 20,000 plants on display in our final What The Flora!? Q&A episode for the season. ▶️ Watch now: bit.ly/3Fym1Qf

Not a bad spot to be doing fieldwork collecting DNA of Pultenaea species with James Clugston, PhD

A great place and location to come to work everyday. The people are great and the facilities are amazing. The Australian Botanic Garden

What a better way to end a week looking at cycads? Maybe looking for Pultenaea spinosa around Brisbane. This is always a cool species to see in the bush.

Really good article just published with Cosmos online with me about cycad conservation. it really puts the point of plant conservation across well. cosmosmagazine.com/nature/plants/…

Are cycads really dinosaur plants? this great video gives the answers Cosmos. youtube.com/watch?v=dzTNxr…

First Cycad Specialist Group meeting in five year. Looking towards the future with Cycad 2050, to help ensure no cycads will go extinct.

#Cycads first appeared around 280 million years ago 😮 🌱 #PineappleZamea (Lepidozamia peroffskyana) is a native species & a great option for the home garden. ➡️ Watch the full ep: ab.co/3IOUFYh 📍 Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan James Clugston, PhD ABC Australia

Do you want to know about sex determination in cycads? We have just published a short paper in South African Journal of Botany. Check it out open access here sciencedirect.com/science/articl… ⁦Michelle vd Bank⁩

🌿 New insights into one of Australia’s great plant radiations! Using target-capture phylogenomics, we resolved long-standing challenges in Mirbelieae (pea-flowered legumes): academic.oup.com/aob/article/13…