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pmihalek1

i just got a tree from a friend and i dont know what it is. it looks kinda like a palm but i dont think it is. it has three separate trunks that come up from the dirt, they are somewhat twisted looking. they have long thin long leafs at the tips.?????????????????

NeTree

Pictures are worth a thousand words.

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Eric Frei

Maybe a Dracaena

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stirmantrees

if you nail this one from that description i will be speechless

ofcourse if it looks like a palm then its been in your sites for awhile

pmihalek1

It was this. I found a picture on another sight. You are good.

pmihalek1

The tips of the branches were hanging and twisted. The leaves were limp, very limp. It sat out in freezing cold for a night, and I just picked it up yesterday. My husband cut the dead tips off, and the trunk/limbs are still up, not falling over as of this morning. Is there more we can do to keep it alive?

Eric Frei

They're pretty hardy, you can cut them off anywhere you like, shove them in the ground and keep them watered and they'll grow.

But around here it's warm to hot, like Florida, don't know where you are but I think they'd not like cold much.

Keep moist but not wet, you know, like most plants.

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pmihalek1

We live in Georgia, but two nights ago it got down to close to 20 degrees or so, maybe less, not sure. Have it back inside now. Friend had put it outside for us to get it, and we weren't able to pick it up till yesterday.

stirmantrees

nice one eric