Japanese Sago Palm (Cycas revoluta)

Family: Cycadaceae | Edibility: Edible (2/5)

Form: Palm.

Edible Parts & Harvest Seasons

Edible Parts: Nuts/Seeds, Shoots

Harvest Seasons: Fall, Late Summer

Flavor & Culinary Uses

Seed - raw or cooked. They can be dried and ground into a powder then mixed with brown rice and fermented into 'date miso' or 'sotetsu miso'. Caution is advised, see the notes above on toxicity. — Seed - raw or cooked.; They can be dried and ground into a powder then mixed with brown rice and fermented into 'date miso' or 'sotetsu miso'.; Caution is advised, see the notes above on toxicity.; The heart or pith of the trunk is sliced and eaten baked or powdered.

Habitat & North American Range

Found mainly on the sea shore in S. Japan. Thickets on hillsides on islands, sparse forests on mainland at elevations of 100 - 500 metres in Fujian, China. (Zone 8)