What the island nation of Cape Verde cherishes as its own distinctive kind of date palm is getting an ancestry ... The islands, scattered off western Africa’s big bulge, have six known species ...

Palm trees, nearly all of which ... where a mass of them are planted near African candelabra (Euphorbia ingens), another magnificent succulent tree. Both of these species top out at around 30 ...

A 40-year-old farmer, Abdullahi Rasaki, has died after a palm tree fell on him in Bogije Village, Ijebu Igbo, Ogun State. The incident occurred around 3:30 pm on Sunday and was reported to the ...

Several tree species are now highly endangered and at risk of disappearing, even in Africa. Environmental experts believe the disappearance of elephants from Rusizi National Park has caused the ...