The ancient monkey puzzle tree has distinctive spiny leaves and intricate scaly branches. Its unusual features, scientists believe, evolved as a defense against towering, long-necked dinosaurs.

The morning after a powerful EF2 tornado tore through Botany Woods, the sheer wreckage of trees in its 400-yard wide path spoke to just how apt the name is for one of Greenville's oldest Eastside ...

The fragrant saraca thaipingensis is currently in bloom at the Harold L. Lyon Arboretum in Manoa. Select an option below to continue reading this premium story. Already a Honolulu Star-Advertiser ...

The bonsai garden is almost tucked away, in the back of the University of Michigan’s Matthaei Botanical Gardens, in the northeastern corner of Ann Arbor. With a wooden fence around it, one opening ...

None of the seven acacia trees in the front yard of Sam Morse’s home in La Feria, Texas, seem different from any of the others—or from their countless cousins that thrive in the Lower Rio Grande ...

We’ve seen trees molded to form fantastic living chairs before, and now a young group of German architects are bending trees to their will to form a new breed of living architecture. The team is ...

The Missouri Botanical Garden has rediscovered that one of its sweet gum trees—hidden in plain sight until now—was a seed aboard the maiden voyage of space shuttle Discovery almost 35 years ago. Ahead ...

GREEN BAY (WLUK) — As spring unfolds in Northeast Wisconsin, trees are beginning to bloom, offering a vibrant display at the Green Bay Botanical Garden. However, experts emphasize that maintaining ...

Biographies seem to come in two sorts. The first is a dense compilation of deeds and misdeeds, dates and details of the dead; the second, a hagiography of celebrities still alive and kicking. Ginkgo ...

LAPEER COUNTY, MI – This giant sugar maple tree stands in the middle of farming fields. It could be a new Michigan champion.