![]() ![]() Sacks, who died in 2015 at 82, liked to share these plants with others. Yet they were beloved by the characteristically shy Oliver Sacks, a famed neurologist and writer who had an eye for finding the universal in hyperspecific, often strange case studies. ![]() If you really look closely at the leaves, they have these serrated, spiky ends.Ĭycads nonflowering, unshowy ambassadors of a more mysterious, ancient world are not the most eye-catching specimens at the garden. These are all cycads, composer Tobias Picker said, gesturing at a low canopy of fanned-out, pinnate leaves near the entrance of the conservatory at the New York Botanical Garden.Īryeh Lev Stollman, a doctor and author and Pickers husband pointed at a large, bright red cone of seeds and added: They look like palm trees, but theyre not. ![]()
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