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 ...

Finally, palm roots are very different from typical tree roots. Just as branches fork off and expand into a large network in typical trees, the root system will also grow out and expand with many ...

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 palm tree has been cultivated by humans for almost 5,000 years. This began in the Middle East with the Date palm (Phoenix dactylifera) but soon expanded to other regions with other palm species.

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 sway in the strong wind at Santa Lucia Beach, in Cuba, on Sept. 9, 2017, during Hurricane Irma. (Image credit: Str/Xinhua/Zuma) Trees generally snap, or at least lose a few branches ...

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.