cardboard palm

plant
Also known as: Zamia furfuracea

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pollination

  • Cycas circinalis
    In cycadophyte: Sporophyte phase

    …cycad, or cardboard palm (Zamia furfuracea), for example, is pollinated by a small snout weevil, Rhopalotria mollis, which lays its eggs and completes its reproductive cycle in male cones. Emerging adults then carry pollen to female cones and pollination of ovules and subsequent fertilization of eggs occurs.

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