A. Coconut palms are grown in southern Florida, southern California and Hawaii. Our climate is not always ideal for this palm, but if you want to get a plant going, take the unhusked nut, or the ...

After 20 years, the palms are now very slow growers and the base and width of the lower trunks are no longer expanding. The foxtail palm is about the same size as the coconut palms and tends to ...

He regarded palms as "the princes of the plant kingdom." Fairchild (1869-1954) spent his life scouring the planet for beneficial plants, from grasses to forest trees.

In a bid to restock the majestic coconut palms that once adorned Antigua and Barbuda in abundance, the government has already put plans in motion to import 100,000 coconut seeds from Costa Rica.

Neither coconut trees nor palm trees are real trees—they’re monocots, a group of plants that includes grasses, orchids, corn, and more. The plants don’t have the same kind of wood and bark ...

When the first Polynesians arrived in these Islands, there were very few plants available as a food supply. Fortunately, they brought a great variety with them that we refer to as canoe plants ...

On Friday, Oct. 11, the Advisory Committee on Plants and Animals recommended approval of a new interim rule that restricts the movement of palm plants; decomposing plant material, such as compost ...