Cycas (female)

This species is indeed sometimes called the "sago palm" along with another couple of cycads. It is not a member of the palm family. But there's another sago palm, curiously renamed the "true sago palm", Metroxylon sagu, a commercially important species of palm that is a source of edible starch. Cyacas, on the other hand is "extremely poisonous" if eaten. I would really like to know the story of how both plants came to have the same name. Here is a spotting of the "true sago palm" :-) http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/7368852