Talk:Encephalartos woodii

A fact from Encephalartos woodii appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 20 November 2006. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that every extant individual of the cycad Encephalartos woodii (pictured) is male?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2006/November.

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Spoof

But I have to ask is this a spoof entry? Nicely done if so.... patrickw 14:59, 20 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Have you checked the references? The IUCN certainly appears to believe in the species, and the National Geographic backs up the claim of there being no extant females. What made you believe this is a spoof entry, anyway? GeeJo ^(t)⁄_(c) • 15:11, 20 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sure I believe that it's real. But any entry which lists a species as E. woodii and then says that only males exist should leave you a little suspicious. patrickw 15:19, 20 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hehe, I suppose the name really is somewhat felicitous. GeeJo ^(t)⁄_(c) • 15:28, 20 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This is a real plant - only males exist because there were only 4 male stems all growing alongside each other, presumably from one original plant - the females are extinct, along with all other males. These cycads do not require females to exist, as they can reproduce vegetatively. The Ongoye Forest in which they grew is very ancient and can be described as the 'Lost World' with many other endmic species and subspecies. I suspect this area has been forest for more than 125 000 years.Michaelwild (talk) 11:57, 22 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Change of sex

There is no mention of the possibility that one of the 600 or so clones could change their sex, therefore enabling sexual reproduction. It is known to happen to cycads among other plants. Maybe someone with more literature on the subject could write something about this? Again a rather E. Woodian topic =) Sophronitis 22:53, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Orto Botanico di Napoli

I didn't find any official argumentation for the loss of that specimen than the article on FB that doesn't cite any source... Just a rumour. This is the webpage for the Orto Botanico and there's no mention about its death: http://www.ortobotanico.unina.it/p_aree_espositive/PIIordine/SerreCalifano_cycad.htm Marcor77 (talk) 01:55, 5 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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