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Cycas armstrongii. Charles Darwin National Park, Darwin NT Australia, November 2010.In Native Plants of Northern Australia John Brock says the seeds have a powerful antibiotic activity.
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Cycas armstrongii is a locally common cycad. Charles Darwin National Park, Darwin NT Australia, November 2010.
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Female cone with immature seeds
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A male Cycas revoluta flower. The plants are now over 2 m high and doing well. I see the stems do contain edible starch, sago, but the material has to be detoxified first! Native to southern Japan.
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The male cycad flowers have elongated a good deal in 12 days. I think they may get even longer.
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Cycas revolutaAustralia.native to southern Japan including the Ryukyu Islands. It is one of several species used for the production of sago, as well as an ornamental plant.
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Cycas revoluta Cycadaceae family.Amazing decorative 'ground' palm. The Sago Palm is a very popular landscape item and is the most common cycad used in landscape today. But most people dont realize that it is not a palm at all. Rather this plant is a Cycad, a totally different type of plant.
www.junglemusic.net/cycadadvice/cycads-sago-palm.htmNative to Asia (Japan)
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Botanic Gardens, Sydney.The male cone is strictly terminal on the stem, though eventually withering and pushed aside by a new shoot that arises close beside it.
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Botanic Gardens, Sydney.Note "skirt" of old megasporophylls around stem apex, and the new season's leaves all expanding simultaneously
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Botanic Gardens, Sydney.These are the megasporophylls, probably before fertilisation.
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Cycas revoluta, Kirstenbosch
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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Temperate House
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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Temperate House
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Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn, NY (May 21, 2017)
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Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn, NY (May 21, 2017)
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Northern Territory
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Northern Territory
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Northern Territory
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Northern Territory
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Malayalam: EenthuCycas circinalisTaken at Kadavoor, Kerala, India.
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Cycas circinalisMalayalam: EenthuIts seeds are used to make a white flour to make Eenthuputtu, a very tasty food.Taken at Kudayathoor, Kerala, India
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Nam Nao NP, THAILANDScanned Slide from 2003
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Nam Nao NP, THAILANDScanned Slide from 2003
