A gigantic palm that flowers itself to death and exists as part of an entirely unique genus has been discovered in Madagascar. The mystery palm has a huge trunk which towers over 18m high and fan ...

Journal of the New York Entomological Society, Vol. 107, No. 2/3 (Summer - Fall, 1999), pp. 256-267 (12 pages) Three new species of Neolethaeus and one of Lethaeus are described from Madagascar. One ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Using novel machine-learning techniques, researchers found that of the 1,889 species of palms with enough data to investigate, more than half (56%) ...