Bhubaneswar: In a bid to reduce lightning-related deaths, the forest department on Saturday decided to treat the palm tree as ...

With hurricane season just around the corner, is it time to hurricane prune your palm trees? The answer might surprise you.

Over-pruning palms can lead to reduced food production, winter hardiness, and increased nutrient deficiencies and disease. Ideally, only dead fronds and fruit/flower stalks should be pruned ...

It's the first observation of "sympatric" evolution: that two species evolved from a common ancestor despite no geographical separation ...

In the fall of 1949, the City of Palm Springs dedicated 308 palm ... Garden learning all about the myriad species. His first slim volume “Trees of Santa Monica” was published in 1944.

Commercial cultivation of trees in the desert was not limited to citrus. Westward expansion of the railroad brought with it Date Palm species imported by the U.S. Agricultural Department from ...

That led them to an area dominated by palm trees. It was there that they observed a species of frog unknown to science. They captured several samples, including tadpoles, and brought them back to ...

The county continues to increase support of efforts to stop the spread of the highly destructive coconut rhinoceros beetle, an invasive scarab first detected in October 2023 on Hawaiʻi Island in ...

Jessica Bell, the senior arborist for Palm Beach County, said "These types of trees, if you're going to plant one, you definitely want to make sure that you're planting one offset from the ...

Some fear the state Department of Agriculture does not have what it takes to do the work laid out for it by the Legislature.

Dates, also known as khajur, are sweet, chewy fruits that grow on date palm trees (Phoenix dactylifera). They are rich in ...