Reviewed by Debra LaGattutaThere are around 2,600 species in 181 genera in the palm plant family (Arecaceae). Most palms look like what you think visualize when you think of a palm plant—leaves that ...

Plants like the yucca palm, Torbay palm (pictured), sago palm and traveler's palm are not part of the Arecaceae family. 3. Palm Trees Have Two Different Types of Leaves: Palmate and Pinnate .

Vincent Fehr, Robert Buitenwerf, Jens-Christian Svenning, Non-native palms (Arecaceae) as generators of novel ecosystems, Diversity and Distributions, Vol. 26, No. 11 (November 2020), pp. 1523-1538 ...

In L.A., even some palms decide to go through plastic surgery. The City will not be planting anymore palm trees, but not to fear -- developers and cell phone companies are all about it. Still, our ...

LEONIE NORRINGTON: Palms look beautifully tropical and bring welcome shade to a garden. They're also highly recognisable with their own distinct family, Arecaceae. And although they're sometimes ...