If you live in a tropical or subtropical climate and want a stately, ornamental tree that gives large harvests of sweet fruits, then a date palm tree might be for you. This guide looks at how to grow ...

MOBILE, Alabama -- I’ve been bicycle foraging again, and have made out extremely well. After a foraging expedition as sweet as this one, it makes me wonder whether I should even bother to garden.

Scientists have shown for the first time the widespread harm caused in Peru by cutting down the palm tree Mauritia flexuosa in order to harvest its fruit. The scientists examined where and why the ...

The fruits have ripened and there is a bounty to harvest. I write not of citrus but of palms. Specifically my topic this week concerns fruits of our native desert fan palm, Washingtonia filifera.

Borassus flabellifer is the scientific name and like most scientific names, a bit of a tongue twister for the palmyra palm — a tree that is very much a part of the Indian landscape and its culture.