Growing palm trees from seeds is a long process but it is doable. (Photo David Grunfeld, The Times-Picayune) QUESTION: There are some big palm trees near my house, and I was wondering if they would ...

The world's most remarkable date palm trees might not exist if Sarah Sallon hadn't gotten sick while working as a doctor in India in 1986. Antibiotics didn't help. What cured here, she thinks, were ...

LONDON, Feb 20 (Reuters) - The seeds of the "suicide palm", a newly discovered and extremely rare palm tree, have arrived in Britain for urgent study and conservation, the Royal Botanical Gardens at ...

Their names are Adam, Jonah, Uriel, Boaz, Judith, and Hannah, and their ages are—well, actually, this one’s a bit complicated. Adam, Jonah, Uriel, Boaz, Judith, and Hannah are date-palm trees, and ...

There are around 2,600 species in 181 genera in the palm plant family (Arecaceae). Most palms look like what you think visualize when you think of a palm plant—leaves that are large, compound, and ...

For thousands of years, Judean date palm trees were one of the most recognizable and welcome sights for people living in the Middle East -- widely cultivated throughout the region for their sweet ...