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'Queen sago' alludes to the name 'king sago' given to the related Cycas revoluta, as well as to its use as a source of edible starch.The specific epithet rumphii honours the German-born Dutch naturalist Georg Eberhard Rumphius (1628–1702), who served first as a military officer with the Dutch East India Company in Ambon, then with the civil merchant service of the same company.
Cycas circinalis, also known as the queen sago, is a species of cycad known in the wild only from southern India. Cycas circinalis is the only gymnosperm species found among native Sri Lankan flora. Taxonomy
Cycas revoluta (Sotetsu [Japanese ソテツ], sago palm, king sago, sago cycad, Japanese sago palm) is a species of gymnosperm in the family Cycadaceae, 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. The sago cycad can be distinguished by a ...
Sago produced from cycads must be detoxified before consumption. Plants called sago palm include: Metroxylon (true sago palms), a genus in the palm family (Arecaceae) native to Southeast Asia; Cycads Cycas revoluta, (king sago palm), native to Japan and widely cultivated as an ornamental plant; Cycas rumphii, (queen sago palm), native to ...
Cycas rumphii (queen sago palm) Cycas scratchleyana; Eucheuma spp. (gusô) Gelidiaceae (agar) Metroxylon amicarum; Metroxylon bougainvillense; Metroxylon sagu (sago palm) Metroxylon solomonense; Metroxylon vitiense; Metroxylon warburgii; Myristica spp. (wild nutmeg) Nypa fruticans (nipa palm) Piper betle (betel) Piper methysticum (kava ...
Syagrus romanzoffiana, the queen palm, [7] cocos palm or Jerivá, is a palm native to South America, introduced throughout the world as a popular ornamental garden tree. S. romanzoffiana is a medium-sized palm, quickly reaching maturity at a height of up to 15 m (49 ft) tall, with pinnate leaves having as many as 494 pinnae (), although more typically around 300, each pinna being around 50 ...
Sago, for example, a starch made from the pith of the trunk of the sago palm Metroxylon sagu, is a major staple food for lowland peoples of New Guinea and the Moluccas. Palm wine is made from Jubaea also called Chilean wine palm, or coquito palm. Recently, the fruit of the açaí palm Euterpe has been used for its reputed health benefits.
The tree is of commercial importance as the main source of sago, a starch obtained from the trunk by washing the starch kernels out of the pulverized pith with water. A trunk cut just prior to flowering contains enough sago to feed a person for a year. [4] Sago is used in cooking for puddings, noodles, breads, and as a thickener.