The petiole attaches the leaf to the trunk and funnels water ... It also collects stray pollen, which may have come from other palm trees or the same tree—in which case the tree can recycle the ...

A cross section of the petiole also shows discoloration ... County Extension Office for information if you suspect your palm trees have either of these diseases. Terry Brite DelValle is a ...

your tree may have an insect problem and the maple petiole borer may be the culprit. Although trees drop leaves for other reasons (drought, squirrels, heavy aphid infestations), defoliation caused ...

The palmately compound leaf is easy to recognize because it looks like a palm frond ... to the petiole or leaf stem, which is again attached to the twig. The two trees native to North America ...

Another way to describe the palmate form is that the whole leaf structure is "palm ... tree or plant as a palmately compound, make sure that the leaflets are indeed attached to one point on the ...

Many species are grown throughout the tropics and subtropics as ornamental trees and one species, the true date palm, Phoenix dactylifera ... The leaf stem or petiole is armed with wicked spines ...

is one of Côte d'Ivoire's basins of palm trees, whose cultivation extends across the entire southern strip of the country. Here, the stalk of the branches, known as the petiole, will become the ...