The 'walking palm' of Central and South American rainforests, known for its stilt roots, has long fueled tales of self-relocation. However, scientific research debunks this myth, confirming the tree ...

Towering talipot palms in a Rio de Janeiro park are flowering for the first and only time in their lives, decades after famed ...

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In the fall of 1949, the City of Palm Springs dedicated 308 palm trees in an official ceremony. The community had worked diligently to acquire and plant the palms along the drive at the entrance to ...

Trees provide oxygen, conserve energy and the environment, provide habitat to birds and other animals, provide food and medicine and so on and so forth. Palm trees do more. They are among the most ...

Around 43,000 trees and more than a thousand species of plants, from iconic palms to a prize-winning tree yucca, call Stanford’s campus home. The Daily spoke to several campus tree experts, who shared ...

The oil palm tree is native to one of the largest contiguous blocks of lowland rainforest in West Africa, and provides food and habitat for many animals, including threatened species. Grown in ...