Because Washingtonia robusta grows too tall and too quickly for the everyday backyard setting, this particular species does not belong in an average-size residential garden, ...

Experience the challenge of pruning Mexican Fan Palms (Washingtonia robusta) in dry, demanding conditions, where every cut requires focus, balance, and grit. In this video, you’ll see what it ...

Architects are bringing nature home by making trees part of the plan - There are plenty of examples these days of public ...

The iconic Hollywood tree is known as Mexican or needle palm (Washingtonia robusta). A skinny trunk that may reach 80 feet in height is topped with an inelegant mophead of tattered fronds.

The most common was the Washingtonia robusta, or Mexican fan palm. Many of the original palms planted in the 1930s are still around. A fan palm can grow to 100 feet and live for hundreds of years.

The palms, Washingtonia filifera and Washingtonia robusta, are distinctive and to naturally designate, name the place. Names can be arbitrary or fanciful. It’s hard to know why some names stick ...

Here in Palm Springs, Calif., Washingtonia robusta became vital to the survival of Native Americans due to limited desert resources. They harvested the fruits and fronds and wood of the trees for ...

He then switched to the Mexican fan palm, or Washingtonia robusta, a species of palm tree native to Baja California, Mexico. This is the type of tree In-N-Out restaurants use to this day. ...

In 2007 the disease was isolated from Mexican fan palms (Washingtonia robusta) in Lee, Orange and Pinellas counties. Although both palms are grown in Northeast Florida, ...

Washingtonia robusta, known by the common name as the Mexican fan palm, is not native to South Carolina. The native Sabal palmetto— the popular name is “cabbage palmetto” — has appeared ...