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Accession Data

Cycas circinalis

Common Name: Queen Sago - male specimen

Family: Cycadaceae

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.

Accession Data

USDA Zone: 10-11

Accession #: 198500298

Accession Date: 1985-12-31

Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering

Location: 1110

Quantity: 2

Source: Unknown

Classification

Division: Cycadophyta

Class: Cycadopsida

Subclass: Cycadidae

Order: Cycadales

Family: Cycadaceae

Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:
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References

  1. Cycas circinalis at Plants For A Future. Last accessed on Monday, April 09, 2018.
  2. Exotica 4 by AB Graf
  3. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Monday, April 09, 2018.
  4. WCSP (2017). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on Monday, April 09, 2018.

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Cycas circinalis
Cycas circinalis