frond

You could probably get away with giving this gift to both the plant lover on your list and/or that special someone who genuinely fears the forbidden frond.

This means each frond is a major investment of resources that the plant repurposes after the leaf dies.

Still, Sukkot is a joyous occasion, one that is centered on four plant species: the myrtle, willow, citron and date palm, whose frond is known as the lulav.

When it comes to ecology, it’s always about balances—a simple truth that applies as much to the interactions between plankton species floating on a frond of algae as it does to the paths of miles-wide bands of seaweed drifting around the Atlantic Ocean.

I didn’t see it, but somebody told me Jim Cantore did get hit with a palm frond during part of his coverage.