Get your hammocks ready — these palm trees can provide shade from the tropical sun. Just thinking of palm trees conjures up the sweet thoughts of sipping a tropical beverage out of a coconut ...

1. Date Palm For anyone interested in growing a palm with the promise of sweet dates, the date palm (Phoenix dactylifera) is a magnificent specimen. It needs full sun and will flourish in USDA ...

If you see a palm tree in a hotel lobby, it’s most likely a kentia. The fronds of this palm can extend to nine feet in length.

Palm Sunday is April 13 and palms have long been a symbol of sunny California. There are many different types of palms around California, but there is only one native to the area.

Oil palm is such an important edible oil tree crop for the world. We all know oil palm is called "sawit" in Malaysia and Indonesia, but ever wondered where this punchy little word came from?

The practice of removing green fronds is now being carried out on all types of palms. When green fronds are removed from a palm, the palm’s ability to produce food is reduced. The higher the ...

The subject of last week’s column was palm trees and that will be the subject for this column as well. I recently learned that someone in Fountain Valley has a collection of 200 palm tree ...