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Mar 6, 2023 4:30 AM CST
Name: Gina
Florida (Zone 9a)
Tropical plant collector 40 years
Aroids Region: Florida Greenhouse Tropicals
Hi @RobynBar
Welcome to the site!
Your plant is a Cycad. It may be a juvenile Sago palm or it may be a species of Dioon. I can't tell. It may be dead, or it may not be dead.
You can safely trim off all the dead fronds. Any new growth will start emerging from the crown this spring.
Sago palms and other cycad species like Dioon and Coontie palms and Cardboard palms are very common landscape plants where I live. We typically don't get to 12F here, some colder outlying areas have been known to get to the high teens but my house rarely sees less that 22F. I have Sagos in my yard that were planted in 1987 so that makes them almost 50 years old. They survived a snap here in 1989 where the temps in this area dropped to 10F (before I moved here) so tours might survive as well
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