Identification: what Palm is this?

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  1. SeaGypsy

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    Can you identify this plant?
    I'd like to know how to best take care of it, help it flourish and reproduce, or at least find more of it, but in order to do that i need to know what it is.

    any kind of information i can get on it would be helpful.
     

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    Lila Pereszke Well-Known Member 10 Years

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    Hi,
    it's a Dracaena, not a palm...
     
  3. saltcedar

    saltcedar Rising Contributor 10 Years

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    Dracaena reflexa I believe.
     
  4. SeaGypsy

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    Yeah i don't know why i put palm on there, when i didn't believe it was a palm either. Just what the person that i got it from said, they didn't know either.
    i really thought that Dracaena had more leaf coverage, is that a sign it's doing poorly?
    I don't have much experience with them though, and the plant was just put into my care.
     
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    it doesn't have the lighter color stripes on it's leaves, don't they need that in order to be a Dracaena reflexa? These leaves are all basically one color, besides the dried out areas. I'd like to try to save it. Two of the leaves have some areas that are a bit washed out, but it doesn't look like in a healthy way.
     
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    oopse it seems you may be right, never mind. They come in non-variegated, i'd only seen them with the strikingly different light on deeper green. And found it can survive in relatively low light but may grow spindly with insufficient light, that seems to be dead on now.
     

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