The western bewildering bushmallow is endemic to the San Francisco Bay Area. It returned for the first time in over 100 years ...

Wood anatomy and growth patterns serve as critical indicators in ecological studies, offering deep insights into the history ...

Forests of native trees and plants once blanketed the Western Ghats mountains in southern India, but nearly 200 years ago, ...

Davis. University of Chicago Press, 2024 ($35) In many parts of the world, if you take a walk in the woods, you are likely to ...

The tree disease that exploded in Bay Area forests three decades ago, stunning residents with vast die-offs in parks and neighborhoods before slowing, has opened a new front with a second, potentially ...

They’re typically recognized by their characteristic white, powdery blotches on infected plants’ stems, leaf surfaces, and fruits. The patches are an accumulation of white—and sometimes gray—fungal ...

Photo Credit: Oman9978 / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 Lemonade berry grows as either a shrub or small tree, with more upright and tree-like growth inland and more low, sprawling growth in coastal ...

During each growing season, trees, for example, add another layer of wood to the trunk, called an annual ring, which increases the trunk’s diameter. When a tree is cut down, we can count the ...

This gorgeous low-maintenance shrub begins blooming in autumn, a time when only sasanqua camellias traditionally flower! The stunning rose-pink, double blossoms continue to open through the winter ...

DNA samples from one of the world’s largest and oldest plants — a quaking aspen tree (Populus tremuloides) in Utah called Pando — have helped researchers to determine its age and revealed ...

The world’s largest tree has been rigorously dated for the first time, confirming it is at least 16,000 years old. Named Pando, the tree is a quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) with around ...