Secrest Arboretum will host its annual Autumn Discovery Day Plant Sale on Oct. 4. The event will run from 9 a.m. to noon at ...

Trees are believed to have originated hundreds of millions of years ago. Ever since, evidence of these ancient plant sentinels has been in short supply. Now, a new discovery of uniquely 3D tree ...

Brazil ranks among the countries with the largest reserves of rare earth elements. But scaling up the extraction of these ...

To save an endangered tree, put it up for sale. And whatever you do, don’t tell anyone where it is. That’s how an Australian consortium is protecting the Wollemi pine tree, a rare species that dates ...

In the fossil record, trees typically are preserved with only their trunks. They don't usually include any leaves to show what their canopies and overall forms may have looked like. In a new study, ...

Just outside Cottage Grove at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Dorena Research Center, scientists are playing a numbers ...

“It looks like the Natural Land Institute’s Legacy Tree Program has found yet another Illinois state champion tree: a rare American chestnut (Castanea dentata) in Freeport,” said Alan Branhagen, ...