When it comes down to it, L.A.’s palm trees are like the lilies of the field, glorious to behold but neither toiling nor spinning, many of them sucking down water and providing barely enough shade to ...

With thousands of palm tree species available, it can be hard to choose the right one for your landscape. When selecting palm trees, take into account their desired function in the landscape.

These days, Indonesia and Malaysia make up 85% of all palm oil production, but the oil palm species used actually originated in West Africa. The trees were introduced to Malaysia in 1875 ...

The genus contains 11 species of tall palms with singular stems. Most royal palm species will reach between 65 and 100 feet ...

It helps to reduce your list to a few easy-to-find, and easy-to-grow species. The Royal Palm is one of the most beautiful and popular ornamental palms. It is smooth, has light grey trunk ...

It’s an edible vegetable oil that comes from the fruit of oil palm trees, the scientific name is Elaeis guineensis. Two types of oil can be produced; crude palm oil comes from squeezing the fleshy ...