Palm trees are hardly alien to this hemisphere. Hernán Cortés, the Spanish conquistador who blasted his way through Aztec Mexico, complained about them in a 1525 letter to his master, the Holy ...

Can you imagine San Diego without palm trees? I grew up in the San Francisco Bay area and have associated palms with Southern California since I visited my cousins in Pasadena during the 1960s.

California has just one native palm, the California fan palm, which fill oases in the Coachella Valley and Joshua Tree regions. Nevertheless, the picture on the postcard worked perfectly, and Los ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — Palm trees are an iconic feature of the Southern California landscape, but most people may not know that the vast majority of them are actually not native to the region.

An almost full moon sits framed between palm trees, on Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024, in Pomona. (Photo by Anjali Sharif-Paul, The Sun/SCNG) By Joshua Siskin | [email protected] ...

The red palm weevil is threatening many trees in Southern California. A 2022 report by the BBC claimed just over 50% of all the palms in the world are threatened with extinction. Totally ‘nuts’ ...

California has just one native palm, the California fan palm, which fill oases in the Coachella Valley and Joshua Tree regions. Nevertheless, the picture on the postcard worked perfectly, and Los ...

Another palm tree that can grow in Palmdale is the Mediterranean fan palm (Chamaerops humilis), enduring temperatures down to 0 degrees. This is the only palm species native to Europe.