Coontie is one of my favorite plants. It is an evergreen cycad, growing to about 3 feet tall and is native to the Florida peninsula. Its natural habitat is dominated by pines growing on well drained ...

The coontie, an unusual Florida native plant, often mistaken for a fern or palm, is a cycad - a "living fossil." These primitive plants were a dominant form of plant life during the age of dinosaurs.

Mysterious living Jurassic fossils, beautiful landscape plants with exotic characteristics, nearly wiped out by the animal-cracker industry, now making a great comeback - what's not to like! The ...

A Florida native almost wiped out by the Florida arrowroot flour industry in early the 1900's, the Zamia floridana (Coontie) is making a come back. Rare in the wild, it remains on the Florida ...

Cycads are an ancient group of plants that have been around since the age of dinosaurs. They were dominant plants at that time, but most are currently considered endangered. While there are more than ...

Hundreds of years ago, the Timucua natives of this area used the abundant resources of their natural surroundings to feed, clothe and provide shelters for themselves. This enormous back-yard ...

The St. Augustine Beautification Subcommittee presented six awards to residents of the Linconville area last fall. Darien Andreu, Sanford Street, was honored in the category Florida-Eco Friendly: ...