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 ...

Three species of native newt can be found throughout Britain - the commonest being the smooth (AKA common) newt. Smooth newts are brown or olive green and have pale, spotted throats and orange bellies ...

The palmate newt, a species native to Britain and other countries in western European countries, has been found living in the wild in West Cork A male (left) and female Palmate Newt. This species has ...

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 ...