What the island nation of Cape Verde cherishes as its own distinctive kind of date palm is getting an ancestry reveal. The Cape Verde date palm (Phoenix atlantica), native to the island nation it’s ...

For nearly a century, three Canary Island date palm trees have welcomed visitors to La Jolla’s La Valencia Hotel. Until this week. The hotel, at 1132 Prospect St., made the “difficult decision” to ...

Ernakulam: Date palms bearing fruit are no longer a sight confined to Gulf countries. In Vallam, a date palm growing in the ...

Archaeologists have traced the cultivation of the date palm—also known as Phoenix dactylifera—back millennia. Centuries later, this tree's delicious fruits remain a staple in cuisines around the world ...

Throughout Southern California, palm trees have fallen victim to the South American palm weevil infestation, once stately skyline trees sadly dropping into a frown. The weevils have killed an ...

The Eiffel Tower was not, at its birth, universally admired. The fact that it was supposed to be temporary did not mollify the people who disliked it, chief among them the short-story writer Guy de ...

It’s 3 a.m. in Nimpith, a tiny town in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal. Sixty-one-year-old Chuno Mistry heads towards a row of wild date palm trees. Mistry is a shuli, or date palm tree tapper ...

Across the country, fall ushers in flavors of pumpkins, apples and pears. In Arizona, it’s time for dates. This harvest season, Sphinx Date Co. Palm & Pantry and Arizona State University’s Polytechnic ...

When Thomas "T" Diemer moved to New Orleans in 1988, he noticed the palm trees everywhere — especially the ones with bright orange fruit. “Once, even I stopped the car because a tree had so many and ...