Back To Home Page
Back To Home Page
Back To Home Page
 
 

About the Garden
Downloadable Fact Sheet
(Requires Acrobat Reader)
Media

  Garden Tour
Tour the Mesozoic Garden
Plants of the Dinosaur World
Species List
  Image Gallery
Mesozoic Garden
Plants
  The SuperCroc Site
All About SuperCroc
  Paleobotany Resources
Links
Books
  Visit the Mesozoic
Garden

at Navy Pier
 
Go to Project Exploration
 
 


Species List

The more than 25 species of plants in Project Exploration’s Mesozoic Garden originate from 6 continents and represent ALL of the plant groups that lived during the dinosaur era. Click on a species name to see a photograph.

To learn about plant evolution during the Mesozoic, click here

Species Name

Common Name

Araucaria bidwilli

Monkey Puzzle Tree

Araucaria heterophylla

Norfolk Pine

Asplenium nidus

Birdsnest Fern

Blechnum Blechnum

Ceratozamia mexicana

Mexican Horncone Sago

Crytomium falcatum

Holly Fern

Cycas circinalis

Queen Sago

Cycas revoluta

King Sago

Cycas tiatungensis

Prince Sago

Dioon edule

Charmal Dioon

Dioon spinulosum

Silverleaf Cycad

Cyathea australis

Australian Tree Fern

Equisetum heterophyla

Horsetail

Ginkgo biloba

Ginkgo, Maidenhair tree

Leucadendron Leucadendron

Macrozamia moorei

Zamia

Magnolia virginiana

Magnolia

Nephrolepsis exaltata

Sword Fern

Nymphaeales

Water Lily

Podocarpus

Podocarpus

Polystichum polyblepharum

Tassel Fern

Seliganella pallescens

Gold Tip Club Moss

Zamia furfuracea

Cardboard Palm

Top

 

 

© Project Exploration, All Rights Reserved
Questions regarding this website should be directed to:
webmaster@projectexploration.org