Los Angeles’s palm trees are dying of fungus and under the threat of invasive insects. The city won’t replace the palms that die, altering their prominence in the city and likely their use as ...

Palm trees, after all, are a fixture of the Los Angeles skyline. But that unassuming palm may be the city’s oldest, a survivor of three replantings and a witness to more than 150 years of Los ...

Yet the palms that dominate the skyline in Hollywood and the Los Angeles area in general are not the best representatives of this tree where elegance is concerned.

Los Angeles Arsonist Setting Palm Tree on Fire Caught on Video. Published Jan 14, 2025 at 5:07 AM EST Updated Jan 14, 2025 at 3:32 PM EST. By .

Many of Los Angeles’ iconic palm trees – including Mexican fan palms – are invasive, but they have a long history in California. The first palms were brought to the state by Spanish missionaries in ...

Los Angeles’s palm trees are dying of fungus and under the threat of invasive insects. The city won’t replace the palms that die, altering their prominence in the city and likely their use as ...

City officials say they don’t know how many palm trees have been lost. In 1990, a city tally put the number of palms on L.A.’s streets at 75,000. That number has declined, officials said, but ...

But the trees, so identified with the sun-splashed excitement of Los Angeles, are facing a decidedly darker fate. They are dying of fatal fungus and under threat of invasive […] Skip to content ...