All the leaves seem to be unfolding or already expanded around us now, or just about, and it’s time to discuss — again — a tree with very distinctive foliage. Now, I must report that this past Friday ...

Balboa Park is rich with diverse attractions, museums and walking paths. It is also well-known for its botanical gardens, flush with plants — both distinguishable and obscure. But few visitors may ...

An international team of botanists, agriculturists and historians has successfully grown a mature tree from an ancient seed found in a cave in Israel. In their paper, published in the journal ...

Formalizing trade in herbal medicinal products has the potential to increase the demand for on-farm grown raw material and raise the level of cultivation of medicinal tree species in smallholder farms ...

CLARK FREEPORT ZONE, Pampanga (PIA) — Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), through the Ecosystems Research and Development Bureau (ERDB), is promoting the use of available ...

A compound from the South African toothbrush tree inactivates a drug target for tuberculosis in a previously unseen way. Tuberculosis causes more deaths worldwide than any other bacterial disease. At ...

The Moringa oleifera is famously known as the Miracle Tree. Learn about its incredible nutritional benefits, water-purifying ...

Taxonomy: it is a word that suggests a scientific approach to naming organisms and then to classifying them into convenient groups. The ancient Greeks, for a time, thought that all the plants of the ...