PalmsSealing Wax Palm
Cyrtostachys renda
Sealing Wax Palm (Cyrtostachys renda) is a palm, hardy in USDA zones 11-12, that matures to about 8-15 ft × 5-10 ft. It does best in full sun and part shade with medium water needs in well-drained soil.
- USDA zones
- 11-12
- Sun
- Full sun, Part shade
- Water
- Medium
- Mature size
- 8-15 ft × 5-10 ft
- Maintenance
- High
- Soil
- Well-drained
- Foliage
- Green, Red
- Bloom season
- Summer
- Native to
- Malay peninsula, Borneo, Sumatra
In the landscape
SpecimenAccentTropical
Data sources
Freeze survival
Will it survive your winters?
Hardiness zones show a normal bad winter. We check the worst one — Sealing Wax Palm is hardy to about 40°F (estimated from USDA zone 11), so we'll score it against the real coldest nights your area has actually had.
Powered by ~35 years of daily lows from the nearest NOAA weather station. A risk read, not a guarantee — a sheltered spot or mature plant beats the odds.
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