The oldest living things in northern Europe, and the age is unknowable. Here are twelve.
1. The Oldest Ones Are Older Than Anything Else Alive Nearby
The most ancient yews…
Decades before the first acorn, hollow in the middle, and building houses to order. Here are seventeen.
1. It Carries More Other Species Than Anything Near It
In the temperate…
This is one of the stranger problems in biology, and it went unsolved for a long time because every intuitive answer fails. The roots are not pushing hard enough. There…
There is a small category of materials obtained from a living organism without killing it, and a smaller category still where the organism replaces what was taken.
Cork belongs to…
The single most useful habit is to look at how the trees meet the ground. Multiple stems from one base, a swollen top on a short trunk, or a single…
What makes a single tree worth a journey is usually one of four things: extreme age, extreme size, an extraordinary shape, or standing somewhere nothing should. Here are sixteen.
1.…