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 ...

Palm trees are cherished for the tropical flair ... leave it be. The dwarf palmetto, which is native to the Southeastern U.S. and Mexico, is another cold-hardy species. It might be surprising ...

Extracts of the berries of saw palmetto, a small palm tree native to the southeastern U.S., are used widely to treat benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). In this randomized trial conducted in ...

Having noticed palmetto palm trees growing tall on the south-facing side of houses around Williamsburg, Virginia during a trip there in around 2010, and reading more recently that that ...

South Carolina’s palm, the Sabal palmetto, arrived in L.A. late in the 19th century, and a striking example grew at Fourth and Main in present-day downtown. So too did a “bunya bunya” tree ...