The squiggly trunks and branches of Black Locust stand out in the winter landscape. Photos by Katie Finch Leaves are probably the most common feature used to identify trees. But in winter, when so ...

Learn the different tree shapes that can take your yard from bland to grand. Read 10 Tree Shapes to Transform Your Yard from Money Talks News. 25,968 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can ...

What shape is a tree? For most people, it’s like a lollipop or a feather duster: a single trunk topped by a green bunch of branches and leaves. “Not all trees are like that,” said Sharon Yiesla, plant ...

Shape is very important when picking out the perfect Christmas tree. Have you ever thought about why evergreen trees are shaped like a pyramid, fat on the bottom and skinny on top? Their leaf-shedding ...

A research team from Purdue University’s Department of Computer Science and Institute for Digital Forestry, with collaborator Sören Pirk at Kiel University in Germany, has discovered that artificial ...

Phylogenetic diversity (PD) is a measure of the evolutionary legacy of a group of species, which can be used to define conservation priorities. It has been shown that an important loss of species ...