What the island nation of Cape Verde cherishes as its own distinctive kind of date palm is getting an ancestry reveal. The Cape Verde date palm (Phoenix atlantica), native to the island nation it’s ...

Part 2 of the Date Palm project features the Phoenix dactylifera, commonly known as the date palm. This flowering plant ...

A 32-year-old entrepreneur in Vietnam's Mekong Delta has transformed a 6,800-square-meter date palm farm into a popular ...

The date palm, which was recognized by UNESCO on Wednesday, has for centuries played an important role in the establishment and growth of civilizations in the hot and dry regions of the Arab world.

Methuselah date palm, grown from a 2,000-year-old seed found at Masada, is now in kibbutz Ketura. The history of the date palm in Israel is inextricably bound to the history of Israel itself. A great ...

Glen Oliver could not look more at home as he walked through neat rows of date palms towering like giant spiky umbrellas under the clear blue central Australian sky. "One, two, three, four," he said, ...

Genome analysis reveals that North African date palms are a hybrid between cultivated date palms from the Middle East and a different, wild species of palm that grows on the island of Crete and in ...

Jaggery is a very common household food item in most of the Indian households. It is used as a sweetener in various dishes and also stands out as a solo ingredient in many preparations. Also, there ...

Eight people have died in Bangladesh after consuming contaminated raw date palm sap. From early January to mid-February, 11 cases including eight deaths from the Nipah virus have been reported across ...