The bark of a palo verde tree is green because it's filled with chlorophyll. Unlike most trees, this plant gets a lot of photosynthesizing done through its bark. According to The Arizona Native Plant ...

Buffelgrass snatches water away from nearby palo verde trees, ultimately killing them. Scientists thought deep-rooted plants such as desert trees did not compete with grasses for water. Now ...

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Big black beetles with long antennae might be skittering around your yard or patio this time of year, but fear not: These are just the relatively harmless palo verde beetles, also known as palo verde ...