Palm trees are trees, but they are very closely related to grass. Did you ever see a field of wheat or tall grass after a high wind? The plants may be flattened, but they usually bounce back.

Palm trees are very interesting. I won't say that they never fall down, but it isn't very common. Palms are more closely related to stuff like grass. lilies or even onions than to hardwood trees ...

Those flowers are followed by the tree’s sweet, oval fruits that are rich in antioxidants and natural sugars, with one date palm tree capable of producing 150-300 pounds of fruit per season.

The coconut palm tree in Goa is standing tall again, having reclaimed its status as a ‘tree’ a year after the state government downgraded it to ‘grass’. The BJP-led government headed by ...

The queen palm (Syagrus romanzoffiana) is a graceful, fast-growing and popular palm for New Orleans landscapes. Unfortunately, it is also the least cold-tolerant of the commonly planted palms.

The juçara tree, native to Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, was nearly harvested to extinction for its palm hearts. Now, a local startup is helping farmers sell the tree’s berries instead ...

Red palm weevils typically take a year or two to kill a tree. Symptoms differ from those of a fungus common among Phoenix palms in Southern California. The fungus kills older fronds but leaves ...

A lancepod tree no longer grows in Palm Beach. The tree, which stood at a residence at 1 Via Sunny for 20 years, was the only example of the rare species on an official town list of historic and s… ...

"We could say, roughly, there may be 14,000 or 15,000 palm trees in the greater Austin area, and again, I'm a little bit more optimistic that maybe not up to 90% did not die," Lisa Killander, an ...

The juçara tree, native to Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, was nearly harvested to extinction for its palm hearts. Now, a local startup is helping farmers sell the tree’s berries instead ...