While these low-maintenance trees often need lots of sun and warm temperatures to thrive, many species are surprisingly ...

Scientists identified the tiny species of cat from a fossilized jawbone, which could date back as far as 300,000 years ago.

The genus contains 11 species of tall palms with singular stems. Most royal palm species will reach between 65 and 100 feet ...

These days, Indonesia and Malaysia make up 85% of all palm oil production, but the oil palm species used actually originated in West Africa. The trees were introduced to Malaysia in 1875 ...

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 ...

It helps to reduce your list to a few easy-to-find, and easy-to-grow species. The Royal Palm is one of the most beautiful and popular ornamental palms. It is smooth, has light grey trunk ...

They say developing large and diverse tree islands is important for conserving “rare, endemic, and forest-associated” plant species in oil palm agricultural areas. Tree islands speed up the natural ...

Converting these logged forests to oil palm plantations, however, has greater impacts on biodiversity that go beyond those of logging alone. Species of birds, bats, dung beetles, trees ...