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false sago - southeastern Indian cycad with palmlike foliage

Cycas, genus Cycas - type genus of Cycadaceae: genus of widely distributed Old World evergreen tropical trees having pinnate leaves and columnar stems covered with persistent bases of old leaves

Cycas revoluta, sago palm - dwarf palmlike cycad of Japan that yields sago

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We referred to it as "a sago palm" for brevity, but it is commonly called, and rightfully so, the "false sago palm." --N.

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Their data dovetail with a report that an amino acid found in the seeds of the false sago palm produces parkinsonism in monkeys and may have caused an increases in neurological diseases on two west Pacific islands (SN: 8/8/87, p.94).

Environmental roots to parkinsonism

and their French, British and German colleagues finger a possible culprit: an unusual amino acid found in the seeds of the false sago palm.

Plant at the root of neural disorders

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