Sago Palm
| Latin Name: | Cycas revoluta |
| Common Name: | Sago Palm |
| Description: | Dioecious palm-like tree slowly forming hulking trunk to 10 feet or more high, usually solitary but sometimes branched, topped by a terminal crown of stiff, deep glossy green, feathery pinnate fronds 3 to 6 feet long. The leathery leaflets are spine-tipped and rolled down at margins: the petal-less flowers are in terminal clusters of brown-woolly carpels, in female trees containing the orange fruit, covering nut-like poisonous seeds. |
| Family: | Cycadaceae |
| USDA Zone: | 8b-11 |
| Flower: | negligible |
| Mature Height: | 10 ft |
| Mature Width: | 12-15 ft |
| Preferred light conditions: | Full Sun |
| Preferred water conditions: | moderate |
| Growth Speed: | slow |
| Size at one year of growth: | 6 inches |