Cycas Revoluta
苏铁, 风尾蕉
Family Name: Cycadaceae
Common Name: Japanese Cycad
Sago Cycad
Common Name: Japanese Cycad
Sago Cycad
Description:
It natives to southern Japan including the Ryukyu Islands. It has erect, sturdy trunks that are typically about one to two feet in diameter, sometimes wider and can grow into very old specimens with twenty feet of trunk. The leaves are a dark olive green and about three to four feet long when the plants are of a reproductive age. They can be longer if not grown in full sun. Trunks can branch multiple times, thus producing multiple heads of leaves. The trunks are rough and retain the old leaf bases of previous leaves. It is seen in almost all botanical gardens, in temperate and tropical locations and in many areas of the world it is heavily promoted commercially as a landscape plant.
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