Cycas revoluta Thunb. Notwithstanding the common name of sago palm or King Sago palm, this cycad is botanically closer to conifers than to palms. It is a very slow-growing, symmetrical plant that produces a crown of shiny, arching, palm-like, evergreen palmate leaves atop a shaggy upright trunk. Trunks take a long time to form. Arching pinnate leaves form a loose, feather-like rosette with leaflets . Each leaf has a large mid-rib with very narrow, rigid, spiny-tipped, deep green leaflets. Leaflets have revolute edges (margins rolled downward), hence the specific epithet. Young sago palm plants produce leaves intermittently in several different growth spurts per year, however mature plants only produce leaves once per year. Plants are dioecious (separate male and female plants).
Indoors plants should be planted in containers with a soil-based potting mix amended with sand and peat. Site plants in filtered sun for 4-6 hours per day (as through a window curtain on an east, west or southern window). Needs regular and consistent moisture with soil surface nearly drying between water applications.
Genus name comes from the Greek name for a kind of palm.Specific epithet means means rolled back.
Cycas revoluta
Cycas revoluta comes in following sizes:
M - is ca. 60 cm tall and comes in a ⌀ 14 cm pot.
L - is ca. 60 cm tall and comes in a ⌀ 21cm pot.
XL - is ca. 90 cm tall and comes in a ⌀ 27cm pot.
