While these low-maintenance trees often need lots of sun and warm temperatures to thrive, many species are surprisingly ...

Across southeastern Liberia, oil palms grow wild in the forest. Known as “country palm,” the Elaeis guineensis tree is native ...

Stately palm trees, lining neighborhoods ... Coastal sage scrub and chaparral, which provide habitat to numerous species of insects, reptiles and mammals, burn readily and in fact need fire ...