Leaves on two outdoor sago palms turning yellow, they have new green center growth which is also turning yellow, help.
47+ Sago Palm Brown Leaves. By all means cut them off. One landscape plant you may want to avoid.
A sago palm is not really a palm but a member of the cycad family and a relative of conifers and ginko trees. There is nothing wispy or soft about a sago palm (cycas revoluta). Sago produced from cycads must be detoxified before consumption.
This is a normal reaction of the tree as the plant uses older leaves will turn yellow and then brown and this is not a reason to worry.
Sagos, like many plants, can be propagated easily from seeds and offsets or pups. It will put out new leaves soon. A sago palm tree does well in containers & looks exotic. New fronds may be stunted and quickly turn yellow sago palms naturally lose fronds as the plant grows.