Assertion: cycad | /r/HasProperty | slow
Facets:
value: very
type: DEGREE
value: with slow recruitment
type: OTHER
value: with population turnover
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Although cycads in general are slow growing and will tolerate neglect, with sufficient light, moisture, and nutrients many will increase in size and mature quite quickly.
text: They are slow-growing: a long stem can take the best part of a millennium.
text: Cycads are slow growers and live very long with some specimens known to be as much as 1,000 years old.
text: As cycads are very slow growing, it’s almost impossible for cycads to adapt in the same way as they did 12 million years ago—creating yet another threat to the survival of cycads.
text: Cycads are slow to reproduce and limited in distribution.
text: The cycad is a slow growing plant that starts as a compact, round cluster of leaves, eventually extending out of the soil on a pole-like trunk as high as twenty feet.
text: Cycads are thought to be very slow growing plants.
text: Cycads are slow-growing plants so it's hard to predict whether cycads can survive, now that climate change is occuring at a much faster rate," she says.
text: They are slow growing & a wonderful addition in the garden.
text: They are slow growing, tough, durable, and can be left out of the ground for months before being replanted.
text: Cycads are long-lived and slow-growing, with slow recruitment and population turnover.
text: In the case of cycads, if large mature adult plants are targeted by harvesters, this may have serious consequences for wild populations, since cycads are extremely slow-growing, and replacing adult individuals may take many decades (Octavio-Aguilar et al. 2008; Raimondo and Donaldson 2003).