THAN $4, A CENTERPIECE OF THE GREATER DES MOINES BOTANICAL GARDENS COLLECTION IS NO MORE. TODAY, THE GIANT CUBAN ROYAL PALM TREE WAS CUT DOWN. PIECE BY PIECE. IT WAS GROWING TOO LARGE FOR THE DOME.

From a distance it looked almost like a palm tree, and Dr. Wood — who made his living collecting rare plants (he directed a botanical garden in Durban) had some of the stems pulled up ...

ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar – A self-destructing palm ... the London botanical gardens in Madagascar. "But then a large shoot, a bit like an asparagus, grows out of the top of the tree and starts ...

MANATEE COUNTY -- Most people would not look twice at the raggedy-looking cabbage palm. But they might ... say experts at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota. The tree, which was donated ...

LIHUE, Kauai (Island News) -- A botanical garden on Kauai is bracing ... a Kauai single-island endemic palm in NTBG's South Shore Garden, and described, "It's federally listed as endangered.

One of the rare and globally threatened species of palm, the double coconut ( Lodoicea maldivica) tree was planted at the botanical garden in 1894 and the artificial pollination is a result of ...