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.
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Few scientific ideas have travelled as far or as fast as this one. Trees, it is said, are connected underground by fungal threads through which they share nutrients, support their…
Autumn colour is usually described as leaves changing colour, which frames it as something the leaf does. That is only half right, and the half that is wrong is the…