Sago palm
അലങ്കാരപ്പനसॅगो पामসাগু সাইকাস
Cycas revoluta Thunb.
- light
- Part sun
- water
- Little
- tall
- 2.0 m
- wide
- 2.0 m
Cycadaceae
Also called Sago cycad, Japanese sago cycad, Sago Palm, King Sago, Fern Palm
Formerly Cycas aurea, Cycas miquelii, Cycas taitungensis, Epicycas miquelii
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- ShrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- China (Fujian), Japan (S. Shikoku, Kyushu) to E. TaiwanKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Part shade (3 to 6 h)Read from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension part; Wikipedia full, part
- Height
- 91 cm to 3.0 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 91 cm to 3.0 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Coldest it survives
- -6.7 °C (USDA zone 9a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Palma de Segú, Cica
- French
- Cycas du Japon, Sagoutier, Sagou du Japon
- Chinese
- 蘇鐵, 避火蕉, 琉球蘇鐵
- Portuguese
- Sagu-de-jardim
- Hebrew
- ציקס מופשל
- Japanese
- ソテツ, タイワンソテツ
- Czech
- cykas japonský
- Indonesian
- Penawar Jambe
- Croatian
- Cikas palma, Lažna Palma, Bujadovac
- Russian
- Саговник поникающий, Саговник тайтунгский
- Chinese (China)
- 苏铁, 避火蕉, 台东苏铁
- Dutch
- Valse Sagopalm
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Cycas revoluta (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.