It’s 3 a.m. in Nimpith, a tiny town in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal. Sixty-one-year-old Chuno Mistry heads towards a row of wild date palm trees. Mistry is a shuli, or date palm tree tapper ...

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 ...

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.

2005-06-12 04:00:00 PDT Kibbutz Ketura, Israel-- It has five leaves, stands 14 inches high and is nicknamed Methuselah. It looks like an ordinary date palm seedling, but for UCLA- educated botanist ...

Dates have been one of the most important crops in the Middle East for thousands of years. © Matthew Corcoran NYU Abu Dhabi Date palms have provided food, shade and ...

Rajasthan is estimated to produce nearly 2,800 tonnes of date palm this year, a rise of 75% as compared to last year and more than triple the first harvest of the fruit in 2015-16, officials said. In ...

Santa Claus is taking a brief break from working overtime with the elves and is making a stop in the Jacksonville area to take some photos with families. Read full article: Better be on the nice list: ...

PalmFil is a type of high-performance fibers and reinforcements extracted from the byproducts of date palms, developed by a consortium of five Egytpian researchers specializing in natural fibers. The ...

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 ...

Bahrain Palm tree germination insemination is a key skill that the farmer must have In the process a collection of male parts stamen are joined with female parts pistil to create the best type of ...