This slow growing palm-like cycad is suckering and forms multiple trunks with glossy green leaves that have drooping leaflets and radiate from the crown. A woolly golden brown leaf-like female flower head is produced at the apex on older plants.  

Hardiness zones 10 to 12 

Cycas circinalis is naturally found from India to Sri Lanka and extending to south-east Asia growing in a sunny to semi shaded protected position in well drained deep moist, sandy loams and is frost tender but mildly drought tolerant.

Fern Palm is grown for its soft foliage and its clumping habit. It is planted in tropical settings as a specimen or used around a water feature. It is suitable for costal regions and is used in gully plantings. It establishes in 3 to 5 years and is long lived. It is commonly used as an understorey around trees for a tropical effect. ID 2258

Cycas (SY-kas /SEE-kas) circinalis (seer-si-NAL-is)

Cycadaceae (SY-ah-DAY-see-ee)