Cycads

Cycads are ancient plants that have existed since the age of dinosaurs. The king and queen sago, the cardboard "palm" and the Florida native coontie are species usually found in the landscape. Their tropical look can add an exotic touch to any Florida garden.

UF/IFAS Sites

• Cycads Provide an Exotic Prehistoric Look
• Gardening Tips: Dioecious Plants
• Plants Growing in the Pasco Extension Demonstration Landscape Garden
• UF/IFAS Cycad Research Helps Save "Living Fossils"

UF/IFAS Publications

• 50 Common Native Plants Important in Florida's Ethnobotanical History
• Cycads in the South Florida Landscape
• Cycas circinalis Queen Sago
• Cycas revoluta King Sago (PDF)
• The Jurassic Garden (PDF)
• Pre- and Postemergence Herbicides for Use Around Palms and Cycads
• A Selection of African Palms and Cycads Suitable for an African-American/African Focused Yard in Miami-Dade County (PDF)
• Use Care With Sagos
• Zamia floridana Coontie
• Zamia furfuracea Cardboard Plant, Cardboard Cycad

Also on Gardening in a Minute

• Cycad Aulacaspis Scale

Other Sites

• The Cycad Pages--Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney Australia
• The Cycad Society
• Cycads: Living Fossils--Fossil News – Journal of Avocational Paleontology
• Cycads and Gymnosperms--University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service (PDF)
• Hardy Palms and Cycads for Mississippi--Mississippi State University Extension Service
• Introduction to the Cycads--University of California Museum of Paleontolgy
• IUCN/SSC Cycad Specialist Group (CSG)
• Montgomery Botanical Center
• Palm & Cycad Societies of Florida
• Palms and Cycads--Clemson Extension
• Sago Palm Cycas revoluta--University of Illinois Extension