Cycas revoluta

🌲 Cycas revoluta – Evergreen Sago Palm
📏 Height: 1–3 m
🌿 Habit: Bushy, stout and hairy trunk → crown of pinnate fronds in a rosette form
🌳 Crown: Compact rosette, up to ~1 m in diameter
🌍 Origin
🧬 Native to southern Japan (including the Ryukyu Islands) and southeastern China
📍 Ideal for
🏡 Ornamental plant for outdoors/indoors | gardens and containers
🌼 Flowering & Reproduction
🌿 Dioecious species: male and female cones; pollination by insects and wind
📅 Flowering age: ~13+ years | young fronds emerge in spring (flush)
🎯 Male cones: elongated and cylindrical | Female cones: compact with bright red seeds
💚 Ecology & Environmental Value
🌱 A “living fossil” (Cycadophyta) | Forms symbiosis with coralloid cyanobacteria for nitrogen fixation
🌦️ Tolerance: withstands drought, salinity, poor soils, and moderate cold (down to –8 °C)
🧰 Care & Maintenance
🛠️ Low to moderate maintenance
💧 Soil: well-drained, avoid waterlogging
🌞 Light: full sun or partial shade; in pots prefers bright but not overly intense light