These palm trees have a big head that produces heavy shade so it’s possible that the lower fronds may die due to a lack of light. If the lower fronds are dying, the palm tree needs to be pruned.

Like deciduous tree leaves, palm fronds perform photosynthesis, giving the tree the food it needs to live. Some palm fronds can last for five years or longer. They come in many sizes and shapes too.

It is this one bud that creates new fronds and helps the tree increase in height. However, if the bud of the palm tree dies, the tree will die. It does not have the ability to grow another.

Call me heretical, but sometimes I feel that way about L.A.’s palm trees. The difference is that there is almost nowhere that you won’t see a palm tree, including right out my back door.

It is this one bud that creates new fronds and helps the tree increase in height. However, if the bud of the palm tree dies, the tree will die. It does not have the ability to grow another.

A man trimming a palm tree died Friday, April 26, when fronds fell on him, pinning him to the tree, the Riverside Fire Department said. The fronds that fell on the man were dead and formed what is ...

On Monday, fire officials said he was clearing a palm tree’s “skirt” when the dead fronds collapsed about 11:20 a.m. at the house on Bonita Verde Drive, a cul-de-sac near Rohr Park.

A 55-year-old Bakersfield man who was found unresponsive atop a palm tree underneath palm fronds last week died, the Kern County coroner's office reported Friday.

Phoenix Fire Department officials were called to conduct a palm tree rescue near 20th Street and Indian School after a man became trapped under hundreds of pounds of palm fronds.

BONITA BONITA — A 39-year-old man working as a tree trimmer died Monday morning when dead palm fronds fell on him and trapped him about 50 to 60 feet up a tree in Bonita, fire officials said.