Cycas Revoluta is a very unusual but highly popular ornamental plant.
Cycas revoluta is undoubtedly the best known and most popular cycad in the world. Despite this, not much has been known until recently about the wild populations. Last year, the authors published a comprehensive account of the species (Osborne & Tomiyama 1995). Several hundred thousand specimens of Cycas revoluta occur in a scattered distribution pattern from the southernmost part of Kyushu and throughout the Ryukyu Islands, mostly growing on near-vertical coastal cliffs (Figure 1) or on the sides of limestone mountains.
