A large, lush Florida palm leaf. Thin aspen leaves rustling ... and there’s so many different types and genres of story within each single leaf,” said Dan Chitwood, a biologist and associate ...

the leaflets form and radiate from a single point of attachment called the distal end of the petiole or rachis. Another way to describe the palmate form is that the whole leaf structure is "palm ...

a palm grows from a single point at the top of the trunk. Known as the apical meristem, it's often referred to as the palm bud or palm heart. "All new leaves come from this bud. If the bud is ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. One of the most well-known trees with unlobed leaves is the flowering ...