A team of paleobotanists from China and Germany recently reported the discovery of a Parrotia flower from approximately 15 million years ago perfectly preserved in amber from Zhangpu, East China's ...

What a memorable name the Persian ironwood has, and it is a descriptive one, too, because this tree is indeed native to Persia, now Iran, and the wood is famously hard and durable. Handsome, but not ...

Back in the 1970s, responding to the loss of 30 million elm trees, the then Department of the Environment encouraged us to "Plant a tree in 73" (the slogan the following year was, inelegantly, "Plant ...