Have you ever glanced at the label of your favourite soap and spotted 'sodium palmate,' leaving you curious about what exactly it is? While the name may sound like something out of a chemistry lab, ...

It stands to reason that all palms have palmate leaves, right? Wrong. About half of the 2,100 species have feathery (pinnate) leaves, including the familiar queen and date palms. A palmate leaf, on ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. In palmately compound leaves, the leaflets form and radiate from a single ...

ALTHOUGH much valuable work on the British palmate orchids has appeared in recent years, notably by Dr. G. C. Druce and by the Rev. T. and Mr. T. A. Stephenson, this has been scattered among a number ...