Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. A legendary “walking” tree has captivated rainforest ...

The subject of last week’s column was palm trees and that will be the subject for this column as well. I recently learned that someone in Fountain Valley has a collection of 200 palm tree species ...

Palm trees grace the landscape across Africa, thriving in environments as diverse as deserts and rainforests. Central Africa holds the richest variety, home to 52 species, while west Africa has 38 and ...

Elegance is a quality that may not be essential to beauty, and yet when elegance is present, beauty is definitely there, too. It is thus appropriate, I suppose, that Hollywood — where elegance is ...

When you think of palms, you might be mentally transported to tropical islands and beaches. But palms are a diverse and interesting group of plants of roughly 180 genera and more than 2,000 species.

Nothing brings the image of a tropical vacation quite like palm trees. You may have seen palm trees planted as summertime potted plants in our climate, but some gardeners are pushing the limits and ...

When you think of Florida, beaches and palm trees come to mind. But what if those palm trees were slowly replaced with other trees? That could happen over time because of climate change, and ...