It’s an edible vegetable oil that comes from the fruit of oil palm trees, the scientific name is Elaeis guineensis. Two types of oil can be produced; crude palm oil comes from squeezing the fleshy ...

Pindo palm fruit jelly. In addition to the smaller native saw palmettos and needle palms, there is a type of palm I prefer. Four of these were lined up along the back of my property when I ...

And one shuns the limelight to an almost absurd degree — the new-to-science Pinanga subterranea palm grows its flowers and fruit entirely underground. “We knew immediately that it’s a really ...

A unique palm species is giving scientists new insight into the plant world. The newly described Pinanga subterranean, named for its partial underground lifestyle, is the only known member of the palm ...