Cycas

Cycas
By Lou Paun
Cycas - C. revoluta is a tropical plant, with a stout stem, sometimes 6 to 10 feet high, from the top of which issues a beautiful crown of superb dark green leaves 2 to 6 feet long.

Cycas circinalis
False Sago, Fern Palm, Sago Palm
When is a palm not a palm? Sago Palm looks like, but is not related to, the palm family. In a tropical landscape, trees may reach 20 feet tall and 30 inches around.

Cycas revoluta (sago cycad, pronunciation: /ˌseɪɡoʊ ˈsaɪkæd/), is a plant native to southern Japan. Though often known by the common name of king sago palm, or just sago palm, it is not a palm at all, but a cycad.
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Cycas thouarsii (Madagascar Sago) A large fast growing cycad that grows fast to 10 to 30 feet in the tropics with a thick trunk and 10 foot long leaves.

Cycas revoluta
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Sago Palm
Description
Cycas revoluta is an evergreen shrub that is native to Japan. Sago Palm is very slow growing and when young it is around 2-3' tall at maturity it can reach up to 10' tall.

Cycas circinalis - Queen Sago
Cycadaceae
Cycas circinalis or Queen Sago is a native of the Old World Tropics. This is the fastest growing member of the cycad family, with trunks often reaching 20 feet (6 m) in height and branching infrequently.

Cycas revoluta. SAGO PALM. China, East Indies
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Only one species is grown as a house plant - Cycas reviluta. It is an extremely slow-growing plant, putting out just one growth (1-60 leaves) per year. It is very difficult to grow Cycas in ordinary room conditions.

Cycas revoluta is a long-lived plant. Fifty-plus year-old plants are not uncommon.

#160 Cycas circinalis
Common Names: queen sago, false sago, fern palm
Family: Cycadaceae (cycad Family)
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Cycas revoluta
Trees and Shrubs, Plants of Home and Garden
Seed planted on its side, mostly buried in fertile well-drained compost, 70-80F/21-27C, or grow from suckers removed and repotted in spring or summer; germination erratic.

Cycas revoluta sago palm
perennial, average care
created by chief cultivator
zones: 8a thru 11a ...

Cycas revoluta. Sago Palm. From South East Asia.
Cymbalaria muralis. Coliseum ivy. Grows wild. Introduced.
Dahlia ...

Cycas circinalis, Cycas undulata, Cycas wallichii
Family: Cycadaceae
Queen sago
Origin: Equatorial Africa ...

LEPTOCYCAS
Leptocycas gracilis was a cycad (a primitive seed plant) that lived during the late Triassic period. It was a palm-like tree with a long, woody trunk that lived in warm climates. This tree was about 4.8 ft (1.5 m) tall.

Microcycas (Cuba). - Like Zamia, except that the ends of the stamens are flat, while the apices of the carpels are peltate. Dioon (Mexico) (fig. 4).

Sago Palm
Cycas revoluta
3 to 5'
4 to 6'
Part shade; prefers well-drained, sandy, high organic matter soil. Coastal Plain and sheltered areas in Midstate,.

Canning Ay [Tamil]: Cycas circinalis
Canningay [Tamil]: Cycas circinalis
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the vulnerable Cycas armstrongii. This species is endemic to the north-western corner of the Northern Territory.

The Permian Antarcticycas may be sister to crown-group Cycadales, while Crossozamia, from ca 270 million years ago, may be sister to extant Cycadaceae (Hermsen et al. 2006a); cycads were particularly diverse in the Jurassic-Cretaceous period.

Latin: Cycas revoluta
On a recent foray to the sunny South, I was able to renew my acquaintance with palms.

Sago palms are cycads, belonging to the Cycad family and the Cycas genus. Although there are about 40 species in the Cycas genus, the only one seen commonly in the United States is the C. revoluta, or common sago palm.
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(Imported Exotic Hibiscus,Palms & Cycas Seedlings, ...

Listed on CITES Appendix I.
Habitat: Very rocky sites in dry forest or thicket.
Key Uses: Ornamental.
Known hazards: Many members of the Zamiaceae are poisonous, producing toxic glycosides known as cycasins.

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