This tree is valued for its delicious fruit. Reviewed by Kathleen Miller The date palm (Phoenix dactylifera) has a commanding presence. Its arching, gray-green, waxy fronds can reach more than 10 ...

When it comes down to it, L.A.’s palm trees are like the lilies of the field, glorious to behold but neither toiling nor spinning, many of them sucking down water and providing barely enough shade to ...

The Khalifa International Award for Date Palm and Agricultural Innovation General Secretariat has announced the winners of the 9th Session (2025) of the "Date Palm International Poetry" competition.

BEST OF 2021: Forests of Judean date palm trees once covered ancient Israel, from Lake Galilee to the Dead Sea. The fruit of the tree symbolised life and prosperity and was praised in ancient ...

Dates have been cultivated for thousands of years. Date palm trees can be either male or female, and only the female plants produce fruit. A date palm tree can live for more than 100 years if ...

Despite its leadership in tree numbers, Iraq ranks fourth in global date production, a gap the country is actively working to ...

The darker the colour, the stronger the flavour. Jaggery from the date palm tree is a winter specialty and quite rare. It is prized in the regions it is found and used to sweeten sweets.

In this captivating tale, readers are introduced to Sweet Fruit, an enthusiastic date palm tree that loves her life in the garden of Jerusalem. She has everything—kind gardener, stories to ...

The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) has been developing a new robotic system designed to automate ...