Accession #: 198500298
Accession Date: 1985-12-31
Common name: Queen Sago - male specimen
Family: Cycadaceae
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Country of Origin: southern India
Description: Dioecious palm-like tree slowly forming hulking trunk to 3 meters or more high, usually solitary but sometimes branched, topped by a terminal crown of stiff, deep glossy green, feathery pinnate frons 1 to 2 meters long; the leathery leaflets are spine-tipped and rolled at margins; the petal-less flowers are in terminal clusters of brown-wooly carpels, in female trees containing the orange fruit, covering nut-like poisonous seeds.
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USDA Zone: 10-11
Source: Unknown
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