My thanks to everyone who told me the news of reproduction re my cycas
revoluta. Picture of the pregnancy attached
Actually you have a young virgin female,
not a full pregnancy unless you can find her a mate!
Try
http://www.rhapisgardens.com/sagos/sagoseed.htm
which will tell you all about
it.
Although known as a sago palm, this is
not actually the source of sago, which comes from several true palms but
principally Metroxylon sagu which grows in New Guinea. This is a palm which
normally only flowers once in a lifetime, but spends many years storing up
starch in its trunk for the purpose and is felled before it can use this for
its intended end. It is apparently the staple starch food used by the local
natves who bake it into a sort of bread, but it is also used much more widely
through the world as a base for puddings.
Moira
