Can you imagine San Diego without palm trees? I grew up in the San Francisco Bay area and have associated palms with Southern California since I visited my cousins in Pasadena during the 1960s.

California has just one native palm, the California fan palm, which fill oases in the Coachella Valley and Joshua Tree regions. Nevertheless, the picture on the postcard worked perfectly, and Los ...

Especially the palm trees. “To me, the cell tower palm tree seems like the best symbol of Los Angeles for the 2000s,” said Kazys Varnelis, a historian of cities and communications. “It is ...

In the 1800s and 1900s, new Angelenos imported palms from elsewhere in the world. In the 1930s, the city underwent its biggest palm planting boom, with more than 25,000 palms planted in 1931 alone ...

Historic California palm trees come crashing down into ocean amid powerful winter storms . Los Angeles has seen 75% of its annual average rainfall in just the first three weeks of February.

According to KCET, just one species of palm tree, the Washingtonia filifera, is native to the state. While it’s unclear how many non-native palm trees are in Los Angeles area, the outlet says ...

Most palm trees aren’t native to the Golden State. And appearing in cities as far north and central as Sacramento, they may seem a bit out of place.

Another palm tree that can grow in Palmdale is the Mediterranean fan palm (Chamaerops humilis), enduring temperatures down to 0 degrees. This is the only palm species native to Europe.

Historic California palm trees come crashing down into ocean amid powerful winter storms Los Angeles has seen 75% of its annual average rainfall in just the first three weeks of February ...