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I wrote recently about pollinator-friendly plants and, in response, an email from Susan Savolainen, who gardens in Banning, ...
Find the perfect purple blooming tree to elevate your home's curb appeal and add more color to your front yard landscaping.
A New Hampshire ecologist has discovered male satiny willows growing along the Connecticut River in the North Country. The ...
Scientists have found that a mere 30 species of trees in the Cerrado—the world's largest and most floristically diverse savanna—account for nearly half of all its trees. This phenomenon of ...
The researchers developed a scalable, automated and user-friendly tool called ROADIES that allows scientists to infer species trees directly from raw genome data, with less reliance on the domain ...
But not every tree has to be 40 feet tall to be beautiful. Plenty of varieties, that don't reach more than 10 to 15 feet tall at maturity, have been bred for smaller gardens. And they'll still bring ...
Trees of Bhuj documented several plant species having medicinal properties, such as Tecomella undulata (Ragat Rohido), Derris indica (Karanj), Bauhinia racemosa (Ashitro), Terminalia arjuna (Arjun ...
Chasteberry, otherwise referred to as Vitex, is a well-regarded herbal ... This supplement is extracted from the dried fruit of the chaste tree, a species indigenous to Central Asia and the ...
Lightning strikes may kill untold numbers of trees every year, but one tropical species has evolved to benefit from the sudden jolts of electricity. The tonka bean tree, aka Dipteryx oleifera ...
“Many varieties are on the market ... Vitex: To add more color for summer, choose a vitex, or chaste tree. It thrives in heat and poor soil, and you can choose blossoms of different hues ...
The key distinction between an introduced species ... include Tree of Heaven, Autumn Olive, and Japanese Honeysuckle. In Hampton Roads, Endriss specifically cautioned against Beach Vitex.