A date palm tree can strike an imposing figure in any backyard. The slow-growing trees can grow as single or multi-stemmed ...

Without artificial pollenation the date flower is incapable of producing perfect fruit. Harvey C. Stiles, a noted horticulturist, became interested in the date palm trees of this section two years ...

The country ranks among the top 10 date producers in the world, with 8 million palm trees yielding more than 250 indigenous varieties. Nearly 80 percent of Oman's production, however, comes from ...

Muslims consider date palms and their fruit as sacred. In Arabic, the word for date palm is "nahle" and its fruit is called "tamr." Dates, a fruit that grows in tropical and dessert climates, have ...