The Needle Palm Tree is very slow growing and makes it especially adaptable to icy cold temperatures in Northern states. The Needle Palm Tree grows a wide thick trunk and is a native palm tree to America. Northern palm trees, including Needle, Windmill, and Palmetto Palms, grow well in many kinds of landscapes, and Palm Trees grow successfully in cold climates like Canada and Michigan, even in snow and ice covered landscapes.
The Needle Palm Tree grows 6 inch needle projections from the trunk that protect the inside surface of Needle Palm Tree from snow, ice, and cold temperatures of the Northern States. The Needle Palm forms an excellent round landscape specimen surrounded with tiny daughter Needle Palms. The Needle Palm tree, Rhapidophyllum hystrix, is declared to be the most frost hardy palm on earth by some botanists.
Needle Palm Trees have been known to survive -20F with little damage evident. The Needle Palm Tree can be easily potted for display at entrances to homes. The Needle Palm tree would make a good potted plant in almost any weather to grow in the North or South!
