Like Mexican fan palm, it often self sows, so gets into some weird situations. The foliage is so thick that it commonly becomes infested with rats and pigeons. Female trees produce messy fruit ...

The small fruit that follows is either blue or black. This palm adapts easily to its environment and is a fast grower. See the Mexican fan palm in pots in the Grand Atrium at Franklin Park ...

That palm is likely Washingtonia robusta, the Mexican fan palm. Mexican fans are the remarkably tall (up to 100 feet), skinny palms with fan-shaped fronds that have towered over much of the city ...

One of my neighbors said that only female palm ... or fruit if grown from seed. Palms propagated from suckers will be the same sex as the parent tree. California and Mexican fan palms are started ...

This means fruit can be produced on any California fan palm. In other words, the so-called California fan palm is monoecious, but date palms are not. California and Mexican fan palms both rely on ...

Q: We bought a blue Mexican fan palm at a local nursery four years ago in a 15 gallon container, it was fairly large — read expensive — and looked healthy. I was careful to dig a large ...

Ahead of the 1932 Olympics, Los Angeles officials planted tens of thousands of Mexican fan palm trees around the city of Angels, as part of a plan to beautify the burgeoning metropolis and solidify ...

A reader surprised me with an inquiry about a mature Mexican fan palm dying suddenly here in Napa. A possible cause came to mind, as I saw one dying of a fairly common disease — pink rot — a ...

Neighbors of Pellier Park in downtown San Jose — finally under construction after a long delay — are feeling misled after the city cut down two Mexican fan palm trees on the site, foliage they ...

The university’s iconic palm walk, which stretches from Lemon Mall to University Drive, is getting a facelift. About 110 Mexican fan palm trees, which have towered over the campus for about a ...