Palm trees are hardly alien to this hemisphere. Hernán Cortés, the Spanish conquistador who blasted his way through Aztec Mexico, complained about them in a 1525 letter to his master, the Holy ...

The master plan for the park called for the trio of trees to be transplanted at the park’s gateways if — and this is key — it was feasible. Since palm trees have long been relocated in ...

Keanu Reeves and his band Dogstar are headed back to the Los Angeles concert stage. The group is set to headline the 1,100-capacity Regent Theater downtown on Friday, July 18. A ticket presale is on ...

Palms are tropical plants, and most aren’t native to Southern California. There are more than 2,500 species in many shapes and sizes. Some plants thought of as palm trees are actually cycads ...

The decline in palm trees is part of a larger trend in L.A.’s treescape. In the next five years, the city will lose enough trees to disease and pests that it will take 30 to 50 years to ...

“Palm trees are very-sexy looking creatures,” Ketterer says, but also, when it comes to streetscaping, they solve a lot of logistical challenges compared to woody trees. For example, urban ...

The hatched larvae tunnel into the tree and feed on palm tissue. As the larvae get larger, their appetite gets bigger, and they start to feed on the bud (palm heart) of the tree.

Palm trees' woodless trunks allow them to bend in the wind Debris in the Baie Nettle area of Marigot on Saint Martin, after being devastated by Hurricane Irma, on September 12, 2017.

More than 1,000 palm trees are slated for removal, but 891 new ones will be planted. Nearly 500 shade trees will be removed under the projects but close to 900 will be added.