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Spike Draecena palm hardiness #618173
Asked March 22, 2020, 3:24 PM EDT
Washington County Oregon
Expert Response
Yes. Your Dracaena Palm would not fare well outdoors in our climate. It is best to keep it as a house plant, maybe moving it outdoors in the summer to a sheltered area.
Temperatures: Dracaena prefers temperatures ranging from 65 – 78℉ during the day. Night temperatures can drop about ten degrees cooler, but cold drafts and temperatures below 55℉ will harm the plant. Make sure that you display your dracaena away from any heating or cooling appliances. Natural room humidity is fine seeing as the dracaena is such a hardy houseplant, but it does prefer the higher humidity of its natural rainforest habitat. You can improve humidity with a commercial humidifier or by placing the plant on a tray of pebbles, with water reaching just below the pebble tops.
https://www.thespruce.com/grow-dracaena-marginata-indoors-1902749
Hope this helps!
1. Please ID this plant
2. Please advise of its hardiness so I will know if it will survive in the ground.
Thank you very much.
This certainly appears to be a dracaena palm. From all of the research I did, the tree will not survive in temperatures below 35 degrees. I would not recommend that you plant it in the ground unless it is well protected.
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