Cycas revoluta prophouse-on-the-horizon Multiple stems rise from a

Multiple stems rise from a thick woody base to four or five feet

moist woodland

which earns the plant its other names

like a marsh firework frozen mid-explosion

clothed in the deeply cut

Cycas revoluta prophouse-on-the-horizon Multiple stems rise from aThe Sago Palm is not a palm at all. Cycas revoluta belongs to the cycads, an ancient line of seed bearing gymnosperms far closer to conifers than to any true palm, and the feathered crown is a case of convergent evolution rather than kinship. Cycads carried this same architecture through the age of the dinosaurs, which is part of what lends the Sago Palm such a primeval presence in a modern garden. Native to the warm coasts and hillsides of southern