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Accession Data:

Cycas circinalis L.

  • Common Name: Queen Sago - male specimen
  • Family: Cycadaceae Pers.

  • Country of Origin: southern India
  • 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 petiole or axis; also applied to how the lateral veins are arranged in relation to the main vein.">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.

  • USDA Zone: 10-11

Accession Data:

  • Accession # 198500298
  • Source: Unknown
  • Accession Date: 12-31-1985
  • Bench: 1110 - AFR: Cycads
    • Currently: active - healthy
    • Qty: 2 confirmed on 02-26-2025
  • Restrictions:
    • IUCN Red List: Endangered Species
    • CITES Appendix II Listed Plant

Classification:

  • Division: Cycadophyta
  • Class: Cycadopsida
  • SubClass: Cycadidae
  • Order: Cycadales
  • SubOrder:
  • Family: Cycadaceae
  • SubFamily:
  • Tribe:
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Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:
YearJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
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2009

References (internal):

  • Gymnosperms & Gnetophytes
  • IUCN Redlist Endangered Species
  • EEB 3203 - Developmental Plant Morphology
  • EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: India

References (external):

  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.

data regenerated on Wed, 26 Feb 2025 11:48:04 -0500 [bcm v4.0]

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Cycas circinalis

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Current Accessions in the Cycadaceae

  • Cycas circinalis
  • Cycas revoluta
  • Cycas revoluta
  • Cycas siamensis
  • Cycas taitungensis W/C
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= accession added within past 90 days
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