library books...cycads.. glassworks and Stitched Up Jazz exhibitions.
This notice has nothing to do with libraries, cycads or such like.... I went to return a library book yesterday.....and this weird plant was flowering outside in the garden... it helps to go to the library at the local Botanic Gardens...as there is always something interesting to look at and photograph....some of the Bromeliads were flowering... there was gorgeous old cycad ...probably of the zamia family.... which had all this interesting stuff going on in here.... looked like a plant from outer space... Cycads are some of the oldest plants on earth, and apparently were around in the Jurassic age...whenever that was. According to a little from wikepedia on the subject... Modern knowledge about Cycads began in the 9th century with the recording by two Arab naturalists that the genus Cycas was used as a source of flour in India. Later, in the 16th century, Antonio Pigafetta , Fernao Lopez de Castanheda and Francis Drake found Cycas plants in the Moluccas , where the seeds were...