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Cycas vs. Pinus — What's the Difference?

Cycas vs. Pinus — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Cycas and Pinus

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Cycas

Cycas is a genus of plants belonging to a very ancient lineage, the Cycadophyta, which are not closely related to palms, ferns, trees or any other modern group of plants. They are evergreen perennials which achieved their maximum diversity in the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, when they were distributed almost worldwide.

Pinus

(botany) Any member of the genus Pinus; a pine.

Cycas

(botany) Any member of the plant genus Cycas.

Pinus

A large genus of evergreen coniferous trees, mostly found in the northern hemisphere. The genus formerly included the firs, spruces, larches, and hemlocks, but is now limited to those trees which have the primary leaves of the branchlets reduced to mere scales, and the secondary ones (pine needles) acicular, and usually in fascicles of two to seven. See Pine.

Cycas

A genus of trees, intermediate in character between the palms and the pines. The pith of the trunk of some species furnishes a valuable kind of sago.
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Pinus

Type genus of the Pinaceae: large genus of true pines

Cycas

Type genus of Cycadaceae: genus of widely distributed Old World evergreen tropical trees having pinnate leaves and columnar stems covered with persistent bases of old leaves

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