| Scientific Name: | Cycas revoluta |
| Common Name: | Japanese sago palm |
| Family Name: | Cycadaceae |
| Origin: | S.E. Asia / Japan / China |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 9: (-7 to -1 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Indoor foliage plant |
| Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 1.0 - 1.5m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Arching, Upright |
| Form: | Vase |
| Texture: | Medium - coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Indoor plant |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Filtered shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Compound, Whorled, Leathery, Succulent, Parallel venation, Lustrous, Even-pinnate, Linear, Entire |
| Flowers: | n/a (male cone), Brown, May-Jun |
| Fruit: | Cone (winged seeds), Red, Brown, Aug-Sep |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves whorled, palm-like, arching, on indoor plants most reach 50-90cm long, pinnately compound, 40-80 pairs of leaflets, linear, most 4-10cm long x 2-4mm wide, dark green, reduced to spines near the petiole. | |