tarev: I'm in zone 9b Florida and I've had Codiaeum freeze and die when we have winters with extended, extreme cold. If we have a sporadic night here and there with temp's in the low 30's or even freezing over the winter they seem to make it through okay but if we have two or three consecutive nights of 32ºF or below, they bite the dust. I'm speaking of the ones I have in containers; those in the ground may possibly survive with a good layer of mulch. I did at one time have some very large Croton in containers and I'd cover them with blankets but one year when we had really extreme cold (temp's in the 20's for a few nights and ice) they did not survive even with blankets over them.
