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Tucked away in a corner of London's Royal Botanic Gardens, there is a very peculiar plant. At first glance, it resembles a stumpy palm tree, but this ancient specimen is incredibly rare. It is, in fact, the very last of its kind on Earth. Encephalartos woodii is a cycad, a type of plant that once dominated the planet during the Jurassic Period. Over the millennia, the age of the cycad came to an end. And in the case of Encephalartos Woodii, we may have been left with only one—a single male specimen. This tree is the loneliest bachelor on Earth.

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@shazmosushi

2 months ago

Wasn't expecting the ancient tree named 'wood' to actually be named after a person

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@MogoMojo-50

1 month ago

For those who don’t know these “ cycads “ are gymnosperms ( naked seed plants and don’t flower )meaning they are related to conifers , gingkos and gnetales and the trees most of you mistake for this one are palm trees which are common but are angiosperms ( flowering and fruiting plants )so not the same ( cycad leaves unfold in a round pattern as they grow and palm trees directly grow out a flat folded leaf which unfolds at the very last )

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@xjAlbert

2 months ago

Great images -- LOVE the guy standing in the lavender fronds.

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@petevenuti7355

1 month ago

They must propagate it, sequence it's genome and such!

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@tinkergnomad

2 months ago

"proved fruitless," is the secret villain of the story.

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@Luylulullu

1 month ago

"in search of more E. woodii have proven fruitless" (Pikmin 3 intro reference)🤨

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@finnsmeets-h2v

1 month ago

whats stopping people of planting new ones?

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@zacharychoo

2 months ago

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@nunyabiznes33

1 month ago

Poor thing need to get his woodii some action 😢

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@garyi.2954

1 month ago

Can't Woody be cloned using modern techniques? Plus are there separate male & female plants like the cycad, Sago Palm?

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@cesarcorbantes856

1 month ago

"Wood" was a fitting surname for a botanist, nice!

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@LucasRodmo

1 month ago

I swear that I've seen this plant in a lot of places in Brazil, in fancy gardens. It's probably a different plant, but I didn't expect a super rare ancient tree to be so familiar to me

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@rexa2851

2 months ago

The animation is amazing. Reminds me of ted

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@IberianCraftsman

1 month ago

They are trying to make a female version on the lab to save the especies

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@azimalif266

1 month ago

And it's the last of it's kind because?

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@bondrewd2147

1 month ago

A botanist named Wood what a coincidence

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@sallyrutledge4726

1 month ago

I googled whether E. Woodii was a Cycad... it is, so it makes sense . If they are like the Gynkos, then there would need to be both a male and a female tree,

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@katlabs

2 months ago

There was a similar tree in my grandfather's garden. He used to say it produced nuts that they would roast and powder to make snacks. Unfortunately, these trees are gone now, and I haven't seen any since.

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@you-pv8xw

1 month ago

No way John Wood was so famous they named the material that made up trees after him

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@williamcanterbury6693

1 month ago

There's a rarer one in Australia. Found in a hidden valley in the Blue Mountains...

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