TAIPEI, Taiwan (JTA) — Rebecca Kanthor, a member of a progressive Jewish community in Shanghai, knows that she can easily order lulavs and etrogs in a few clicks online. Kanthor, who belongs to ...

This New York rabbi wrote the book on the etrog’s history. NEW YORK (JTA) — The holiday of Sukkot isn’t complete without a lulav and an etrog, the four species that Jews are commanded to wave on the ...

The jujube (Ziziphus jujuba Mill.), a member of family Rhamnaceae, is a major dry fruit and a traditional herbal medicine for more than one billion people. Here we present a high-quality sequence for ...

Just as every human being is a multifaceted creation of immense — if not yet fully developed — potential, so it is with plants. Take Chinese tallow tree, for example. In 1772, Benjamin Franklin sent ...

Plant Chinese pistache (Pistacia chinensis) trees for shade and gorgeous fall color. Fact checked by Emily Peterson Reviewed by Julie Thompson-Adolf Chinese pistache trees are versatile and can fit in ...

Patrice Hanlon answers your gardening questions every other week. DEAR GARDEN COACH: My street tree is a mature Chinese pistache, about 15 years old, with a good canopy. It is a female tree, so it has ...