Juniper Tree – A Tree Useful in Landscape Plantings
Juniper Tree or Juniperus are trees what we call red cedar is really a juniper. But many others are shrub like and as such are extremely useful in landscape plantings especially since they will...
The Cylindrical Grandidier’s Baobab Tree
Grandidier’s Baobab Tree is the biggest and most re-known of Madagascar’s species of Baobabs. It is also known as “Adansonia Grandidieri”, actually an imposing and unusual tree endemic to island of Madagascar. It is...
Ginkgo biloba – Traditional Medicine Tree
This family includes a single species, which now survives in the wild in only a small area in sw. China. Ginkgo is a common ornamental in North America. Trees are dioecious with separate sexes,...
Spruce ! An Evergreen Symmetrical Spire Shape Tree
Spruces or Picea are tall, fast growing evergreen trees with symmetrical spire shapes. You can distinguish them from firs. Which they resemble, in two ways; spruce needles can be rolled between the fingers, whereas...
Unbelievable Tree of 40 Fruits
New York Based artist Sam Van Ken created a Tree of 40 Fruits using the ancient technique “chip grafting”. His family lives in Pennsylvania Dutch and he grew up on the family farm. He’s...
The Spectacular Golden Chains of Laburnum
The spectacular springtime show of yellow flowers gives Laburnum its common name is “golden chains” or “golden rain”. But the laburnum also has its a dark side, for it is one of the most...
Tabebuia and Handroanthus
Genus and Family: The genus, Tabebuia, is native to the Amazon rain forest and other tropical parts of Mexico, and Central and South America. It included nearly 100 species of trees commonly known as...
Pink Trumpet Tree ‘Tabebuia heterophylla’
The eye-catching Pink Trumpet ‘Tabebuia heterophylla’ Tree grows at a reasonable rate from a slim pyramid when young to a broad silhouette, 20 to 40 feet tall. The palmately compound, green leaves are evergreen...
Why Drunken Trees Behave in Mysterious Way
What are Drunken Trees?
Drunken trees are a stand of trees displaced from their normal vertical alignment. This most commonly occurs in northern subarctic taiga forests of black spruce under which intermittent permafrost or ice...
Top 25 Oak Facts You Should Know
As you know, Oak is a tree or shrub. It belongs to genus Quercus of the beech family, Fagaceae.
Their are approximately more then 600 species of Oaks.
Mexico contains the largest number...
The Unusual Bottle Tree of Queensland
The Unusual Bottle Tree of Queensland is nature wonderful gift. The Brachychiton Rupestris also is known as a narrow-leaved bottle tree or Queensland bottle tree originally classified in the family of Sterculiaceae, which is...
The Black Sapote – Chocolate Pudding Fruit
The Black Sapote “Diospyros nigra” is a species of persimmon in the family Ebenaceae. It is also called “chocolate pudding fruit” and black snap apple. Black Sapote is tropical fruit mostly grown in Mexico,...
Larch – An Evergreen Wild Tree
Larches look for the entire world like evergreen trees. Larches are conifers in the genus Larix, in the family Pinaceae. Larch is also called Larix, is a long waving twigs that have tufts of...
Magnolia Tree – A Handsome Ornamental Tree
The magnolias are handsome ornamental trees. The Magnolia Tree with there showy flowers, there dark green leaves and there relatively small size. Magnolia Tree is a large genus of about 210 flowering plant species...
Butcher’s Broom ! The Fruits Grow on its leaves
The mysterious and rarely seen Butcher’s Broom or Ruscus aculeatus, is a low-growing permanent shrub. It has hard, erect, stems and very rigid leaves that lay off in a sharp spine. Thus, from the...
The Grass Tree Xanthorrhoea glauca
The Grass Tree is also known as “Xanthorrhoea glauca”, is a large plant in the genus Xanthorrhoea mainly widespread in eastern Australia. The tree has many branches and it's trunk can grow in excess...
Coffee Tree – Combination of Foliage and Flowering Plants
Although it doesn’t produce coffee beans when grown as a house plant, the Coffee Tree, with its glossy green leaves. It is an ideal choice for a strong display of foliage. The Coffee Tree...
Maple Leaf (Acer), Grow Nature’s Favorite Tree
Well, everyone knows what a Maple Leaf looks like, right? It is the leaf on the Canadian flags as well, the one that lends it's shape to maple sugar candies. Well, yes and no?...
Linden is Tall, Fast Growing Dense Shade Tree
Lindens are tall and fast growing, with an attractive, dense shape. They are used as shade trees and often as street trees. They bear dangling clusters of fragrant white flowers in early summer. Little...
Hyperion ! World’s Tallest Knowing Living Tree
Hyperion is the name of a coast redwood (Sequoia Sempervirens) in Northern California. It was measured at 115.61 metres (379.3 feet). Which ranks it as the world's tallest known living tree. Hyperion is the...