Mark Dimmitt, a flower expert and retired director of natural history at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, said that foothills palo verde trees “flower in most years on deeper soils and ...

Two Indigenous food educators led a tour showcasing edible and useful Sonoran Desert plants. Participants learned about palo verde flowers for tea, edamame-tasting pods and hunting woodrats.

Twila Cassadore demonstrates how the seeds are harvested from palo verde trees during a tour for the Society of Environmental Journalists conference on April 25, 2025, at Papago Park in Phoenix.

Your fall plant primer • The native Foothills Palo Verde tree serves as a "nurse plant" for saguaro cacti, providing nitrogen-rich leaf/seedpod/blossom litter to the ground, shade in summer and ...

The most common palo verde offered in nurseries around town is the Desert Museum Palo Verde, which is a three-way hybrid of blue, foothill and Mexican palo verdes!

In the Tonto National Forest, more than 14,000 acres of Arizona land, including palo verde trees, mesquite trees, and saguaros, are up in flames. Challie Facemire, with the Desert Botanical Garden ...

Palo verde beetles start coming out during the monsoon. Here's what keeps these nocturnal bugs away and whether they are harmful to people or pets.

California Buckeye California buckeyes are small- to medium-sized trees that produce clusters of white flowers in the spring. Their nuts are eaten by squirrels, deer and other small mammals.

Celebrate the desert's dazzling plants at ‘Xerophilous' The Living Desert is spotlighting arid landscape amazingness; think ocotillos, palo verde trees, and beautiful barrel cactuses, too.

Hot? Hungry? Step inside these food forests. In cities like Tucson, Arizona, neighbors are planting trees to provide shade — and food.

The blue palo verde tree (Parkinsonia florida) is one of two native Arizona palo verde trees, the other being Foothills palo verde. Of the two, blue palo verde is larger and naturally grows in ...