This photo, via The Telegraph , shows just how difficult it is to move one of the large, primitive cycads. Important specimens from one of the world´s oldest and rarest species of plant were stolen last weekend, covert ops style,

from a botanical garden in South Africa. The species, cycads, is so old, in fact, that their broad … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Pre-Dinosaur Era Plant Specimens Brazenly Stolen