Cycadaceae |
Cycas circinalis
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- 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.
Restrictions:- CITES Appendix II Listed Plant
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Accession Data:- Accession # 198500298
- Source: Unknown
- Accession Date: 12-31-1985
- Bench: 2111 - Ant Acacias
- Qty: 1 confirmed on 04-01-2008
Classification:- Division: Cycadophyta
- Class: Cycadopsida
- SubClass: cycads
- Order: Cycadales
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- Family: Cycadaceae
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References:Plants For A Future Website Exotica 4 by AB Graf
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