| A further characteristic of cycad stems not occurring in cycadeoids, seed ferns, or coniferophytes is the presence of girdling leaf traces. |
| As a consequence they have become so unlike that one kind of cycad is never found in both hemispheres. |
| Girdling leaf traces are an important means of distinguishing between cycad and cycadeoid fossils. |
| A marigold may take three days to germinate, a cycad may take three months. |
| We made good time, leaving the bitter pea fields to enter a different landscape of blackbutt forest interspersed with hundreds of grass trees and the occasional cycad. |
| A cycad looks like a palm tree with fernlike leaves, but proves that it is not a palm by producing cones, often resembling those of a pine but sometimes far larger. |
