Cycas thouarsii
COMMON NAME | Madagascar cycad |
TYPE | Cycad |
FAMILY | Cycadaceae |
NOTES | Cycas thouarsii
grows to become one of the largest cycads and probably the
fastest-growing. It can produce 2
flushes of new grow a year with up to 40 leaves at a time, each up to 3
metres long. Cycas thouarsii may be
the oldest living Cycad, surviving unchanged from the Mesozoic (100-190
million years ago) |
GEOGRAPHIC REGION | Comoros Islands, Kenya, Madagascar,
Mayotte, Mozambique, the Seychelles and Tanzania. |
NATIVE HABITAT | Grows in open coastal
forests |
WEB SOURCES |
