Plants the Dinosaurs saw??

Ms. Hoffman got to visit a place called Kirstenbosch Gardens in Cape Town, South Africa. She saw many beautiful plants and animals. But, she was a little sad to learn some things about some of the plants she saw. Some of them are close to extinction. We learned about extinction when we talked about the quagga. Did you know that plants can go extinct too?

There are many plants in the garden and in the Cape Town area called cycads. These plants have existed since the dinosaurs were around.  That means that the dinosaurs saw and maybe ate plants that look almost exactly the same as the ones I saw.

Here are some pictures of what they look like:

The sad thing is that some of these amazing plants are going extinct. Again, it is because people are overtaking their land. Hopefully we will continue to try to save these amazing plants. 

Some plants are already extinct.

Is there anything you can do to help protect plants?