Question: I want to know about palm trees. The leaves are turning yellow. Hopefully, your palm tree has just a normal occurrence of yellowing leaves, which can be caused by a number of different ...

A "HELP" sign made from palm tree leaves saved three sailors stranded on a tiny Pacific atoll for more than a week, after the U.S. Coast Guard spotted it from the sky.

But palm trees are different in a way that makes them seem as though they were invented by cartoonists just for a visual gag. For example, in this video, a man shimmies up to the tippy top of the ...

Lovingly named Sunshine, the queen palm has been displaced from its home at the corner of First and Hill streets in downtown L.A. — the site of the new, expanded Colburn School of Music.

Like us on Facebook. Q: I have a palm tree that is starting to shed its outer layer. It looks terrible. We were told about 10 years ago not to skin palm trees because of borers. Is this correct?

Typically, the stems and leaves are above ground, reaching up towards the light. Palm trees usually develop their flowers and fruits above ground for pollination and seed dispersal.

Scientists discovered the secret to this heat resistant tree is a thin layer of wax around the leaves that prevents them from drying out. Waxy plants are known in hot climates but the chemical ...

It sounds like your palm tree has acquired a Ganoderma butt rot caused by the fungus Ganoderma zonatum. We cannot confirm that without close examination, but if that is what is happening, the palm ...