Like so many things in Southern California, the palm tree was an import from somewhere else that over time became inextricably symbolic of its adopted home. But the trees, so identified with the ...

Is multiple-stemmed paurotis a tree? It all depends on your definition. Sara Edelman Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden In a past Miami Herald article, I called a young palm a sapling. A reader asked ...

It is estimated that there are over 2,500 species of palms, yet only one is native to California — Washingtonia filifera, or the California fan palm. How is it that with only one native species, palms ...

Palms need our help because it is still evident that the pruning massacres continue. You can easily identify overpruned palms from a long distance because their canopy is small and not a round ...

Many palm species in the city are receptive to embers, hard to extinguish – and probably helped spread the fires When the Los Angeles wildfires broke out on the morning of 7 January, some of the most ...

The quintessential image of a tropical paradise, the palm tree is much more significant than you might think. At the sight of a palm tree, most people imagine a sunny beach setting — but these sturdy ...

In most cities, buildings make the skyline. Paris has a tower, London a clock, New York an island-long roof-scape. Only Los Angeles signed the sky with trees. Tens of thousands of palms tower over the ...

Palms help create the tropical look so popular in New Orleans gardens, and summer is the preferred time to plant them. The warm soil from May through August will encourage vigorous root growth. How ...

The Palms wasn’t for sale until the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians came calling. Now Red Rock Resorts is selling the Palms to the San Manuel tribe for $650 million, or $40 million less than the ...

Colombia’s national tree, the wax palm, is endangered. Now, with decades of guerrilla war in retreat, scientists are rediscovering vast forests and racing to study and protect them. Credit ...