Cycadaceae

• Cycas circinalis
• Cycas revoluta
• Cycas taitungensis W/C
• Epicycas siamensis

• Common Name: Queen Sago
• Family: Cycadaceae Pers.

• Country of Origin: equatorial Africa
• Habitat: tropical conditions

• 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.