LONDON, Feb 20 (Reuters) - The seeds of the "suicide palm", a newly discovered and extremely rare palm tree, have arrived in Britain for urgent study and conservation, the Royal Botanical Gardens at ...
There are around 2,600 species in 181 genera in the palm plant family (Arecaceae). Most palms look like what you think visualize when you think of a palm plant—leaves that are large, compound, and ...
Their names are Adam, Jonah, Uriel, Boaz, Judith, and Hannah, and their ages are—well, actually, this one’s a bit complicated. Adam, Jonah, Uriel, Boaz, Judith, and Hannah are date-palm trees, and ...
For thousands of years, Judean date palm trees were one of the most recognizable and welcome sights for people living in the Middle East -- widely cultivated throughout the region for their sweet ...
My daughter has a 20-year-old Madagascar palm that has bloomed for the first time. If the blooms make seed, how should they be handled to make new plants? A. A green seed pod will form, and when ripe ...
The point is to find out what was so exceptional about the original date palm of Judea, much praised in the Bible and the Quran for its shade, food, beauty and medicinal qualities, but long ago ...