When Carol Mulcahy couldn’t keep her decades-old palm alive in her yard on Los Altos Road in Pacific Beach she did the next best thing. With the help of a local tiki carver, she turned it into a work ...
Young trees are considered those that are within five years old after planting. The trees typically have a slender, flexible trunk with a diameter of 1 to 4 inches and smooth, relatively tender, ...
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Plant pathologists at the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) studied nearly 30 palm species to analyze their risk for Thielaviopsis trunk rot. This disease, ...