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Every July 4th gives us one of Los Angeles' most important symbols: the flaming palm tree

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Palm trees on fire during a 2017 wildfire in Ventura. (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times) Every July 4th, for most of the past decade ...
Los Angeles Times

L.A.’s palm trees are dying and it’s changing the city’s famous skyline

Like so many things in Southern California, the palm tree was an import from somewhere else that over time became inextricably symbolic of its adopted home. But the trees, so identified with the ...
Orange County Register

We call them palm trees but they really are something else

Palm Sunday is April 13 and palms have long been a symbol of sunny Southern California. There are many different types of palms around California, but there is only one native to the area. The palm ...
Los Angeles Times

Every July 4th gives us one of Los Angeles’ most important symbols: the flaming palm tree

Every July 4th, for most of the past decade, I log on to Twitter and start retweeting every photo and video I can find of palm trees accidentally set on fire by illegal fireworks. As with most social ...