The first Spanish explorers never saw our native California palms, but desert tribes knew them well. These huge fat-trunk, slow-growing natives are survivors of much earlier forests that died out eons ...

Q: We have several Mexican fan palms plus a few identified as hybrid California and Mexican fan palms in our backyard. They are sending out flower stalks and make a huge mess for anybody who has a ...

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 few years ...

A new corridor of tall Mexican fan palms in front of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's new David Geffen Galleries on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles. (Juliana Yamada / Los Angeles Times) To the ...

Several years ago we decided to remodel our house on the Eastside but ended up building new. In the front yard was a Mexican fan palm tree approximately 100 feet in height, about 80 years old that ...

Nobody seems to know when, exactly, a stretch of towering Mexican fan palms were planted along one of San Diego's most iconic streets in one of its most iconic neighborhoods, but most would agree that ...