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.

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 ...

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 ...