Seed of extinct date palm sprouts after 2,000 years. By Matthew Kalman, Chronicle Foreign Service June 12, 2005. ... "It's certainly the oldest tree seed that's ever been sprouted.

A date palm tree can strike an imposing figure in any backyard. The slow-growing trees can grow as single or multi-stemmed plants and offer year-round interest with decorative fro ...

The main reason to prune a palm tree is for aesthetics. Unlike other shrub or tree pruning, cutting back the tree won’t encourage more growth. Over-pruning will damage the tree, so focus on these key ...

The iconic Hollywood tree is known as Mexican or needle palm (Washingtonia robusta). A skinny trunk that may reach 80 feet in height is topped with an inelegant mophead of tattered fronds.

In Karur, collector M Thangavel launched the palm tree seed collection drive. The district administration has planned to collect around 10 lakh palmyra tree saplings.

A nearly century-old dead date palm tree helped solve an ancestry mystery. ... Now a new DNA and seed-shape analysis adds weight to the idea that the remote palms aren’t desert-island wildlings ...