Cycas revoluta

[nomoss]

We have a Cycas Revoluta, trunk about 40cm high, 22 cm diameter, now planted in our tiny garden, as it got too big for a pot. We bought it in Elche as a very small sickly specimen in a 3" pot, some 25 years ago.

This year, instead of producing its usual crop of new leaves, there is a large flower forming in the centre. On checking sources on the web it seems this will develop into either a male or female, but at present it doesn't look like any of the illustrations I've found.

Anyway, my question is if anyone knows if the plant will die after producing the flower, as I know is the case with some "palms"?

We are moving house shortly, and plan to take it with us, so would hate to do so for nothing. I has a lot of offsets (or "pups") which we could remove and pot, but we'd rather have the big plant in our new garden.