Sara Edelman Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden In a past Miami Herald article, I called a young palm a sapling ... Botanists define trees narrowly, as woody plants with secondary growth.

May through August is the preferred time to plant palms here because the warm soil will encourage vigorous root growth ... trees in several interesting ways. FIBROUS TRUNK: A palm is a woody ...

Tree-ring scientists face other barriers. Some solid growers like giant sequoia ... conifers grow slower and stockier. This slow woody growth generates more lignin, an organic polymer that make ...

Q: Last year, you wrote an article saying the roots that are on top of the ground by palm trees are dead. Is it ok to cut them off? Will these roots damage my foundation or concrete? — Jackie ...

Most trees today have a solid trunk, which gets bigger through ... hundreds of xylem strands in the tree had its own growth rings, adding woody tissue around the outside on a regular basis.

walking palm trees. Like the Ents from JRR Tolkien’s epic Lord of the Rings saga (only a bit slower), these trees actually move across the forest as the growth of new roots gradually relocates ...

which is confirmed when a conk is found at the base of infected palms and palm-like plants. On the other hand, the fungus that can kill most woody trees and shrubs is Armillaria root rot ...

In the deep interior of the Reserve, Walking Palm or Cashapona trees slowly migrate across the wilderness as new roots replace the old. The new growth drags ... new and more solid ground ...

They found that hundreds of strands of water-carrying xylem cells formed a cylindrical trunk, with secondary growth of woody and soft ... to that of modern palm trees. Job title: Associate or ...

Plants are commonly used as “feedstock” to generate biomass energy; examples are switchgrass, copra, cotton, sunflowers, palm ... solid, gaseous, and liquid fuels. A major subtype of bioenergy ...