About 200 years ago, a palm tree was planted in downtown Los Angeles. A slightly oxidized plaque at the tree’s base calls it “a mute witness” to the megalopolis that Los Angeles became. I visited the fan palm earlier this week to hear its wisdom about a subject it knows too well: drought. Heed my life well, the fan palm warned me, as the joggers who passed by paid little attention. Instead, the spray went over the concrete barriers that protect the fan palm from oncoming traffic and landed on asphalt.

Source: Los Angeles Times May 14, 2022 07:59 UTC