Cycas riuminiana

Synonymy: Cycas circinalis subsp. riuminiana, C. chamberlainii Distribution: Philippines
Common name: Ilocano—sauang, sawang; Tagalog—bait, bayit, pitógo (preferred to potago, patubo, pitugo or bitogo); Sp.—oliba, oliva (preferred), uliba, uliva; unidentified lang.—vait. Source: M. Bonta & R. Osborne, Cycads in the Vernacular. Conservation status: Not threatened

Top photos courtesy and copyright © 1999, Jose Manuel Sanchez de Lorenzo Cáceres, from his article entitled The Cycads: Fossils of the Past; bottom photos courtesy and copyright © 2001, Darin Yeatman, from a private garden in California. 

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