Two botanical luminaries – Carl Linnaeus and David Fairchild – never met, but both were stunned by the beauty of palms, considering them the best the plant kingdom had to offer. Linnaeus (1707-1778) ...

PARIS: Botanists on Thursday announced they had identified a new species of palm that is so enormous it can be spotted from space and whose bizarre life cycle requires the plant to kill itself after ...

Accidentally kill your majesty palm? Here's why they're tricky to care for, and the best majesty palm alternatives that are easy going. Majesty palms have earned themselves a difficult reputation on ...

SOPHIE THOMSON: I'm here at the Botanic Gardens of Adelaide in the Palm House which is a Victorian glasshouse. It's filled with unique and interesting plants from Madagascar - in particular, plants ...

A shrub disguised as a palm tree Pachypodium lamerei is the botanical name for this strange plant with a spiny trunk, better known as Madagascar Palm. Not actually a palm but a member of the ...

A gigantic palm that flowers itself to death and exists as part of an entirely unique genus has been discovered in Madagascar; its name will be published in the Botanical Journal of the Linnean ...

Madagascar's forests are shrinking, and that's bad news for palm trees on the majestic island. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) announced this week that extinction ...

Hyderabad — Eighty three percent of Madagascar's palms are threatened with extinction, putting the livelihoods of local people at risk – according to the latest update of The IUCN Red List of ...

On a walk through his garden, Rob Branch ducks beneath vines, clears away brush and points out dozens of palm, bamboo and bromeliad species. Each turn reveals another surprise. “This is corypha — ...