The ash tree (Fraxinus excelsior) is one of Europe’s largest native deciduous trees. Image credit: Matthieu Sontag / CC-BY-SA.
Ash trees (genus Fraxinus)...
The high quality genome sequence of the dry jujube cultivar ‘Junzao,’ along with sequences from trees throughout its range, have illuminated the domestication...
A team of scientists in China has sequenced the genome of Ginkgo biloba, the oldest living tree species.
Ginkgo biloba. Image credit: Darkone / CC BY-SA...
According to a team of botanists and dendrochronologists from the University of Arizona, Stockholm University and the University of Mainz, a pine growing...
A team of UK paleontologists has unearthed three 380-million-year-old fossil forests in Svalbard, an archipelago administered by Norway and located far...
According to a new study published today in Nature, there are 3,041 billion trees on our planet, but over 15 billion trees are cut down each year, and...
Leaves of the European chestnut (Castanea sativa) contain ingredients with the power to block the virulence and pathogenesis of Staphylococcus aureus without...
According to a team of researchers led by Prof Allison Steiner of the University of Michigan, tiny pollen particles may make it rain.
Small pollen particles...
An awesome mammal from Colombia and Ecuador, a leaf-tailed gecko from Australia and a snail with semi-transparent shell from Croatia are among the new...
Chinese and Thai biologists say they have discovered a new stone oak species in Thailand.
Lithocarpus orbicarpus, a branch with leaves. Image credit: S....
According to an international group of scientists led by Dr Nate Stephenson of the US Geological Survey, most of tropical and temperate tree species grow...
Dr Paul Wilkin from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and his colleagues from Thailand, the Netherlands and Poland have described a remarkable new species of...
San Diego Zoo Global researchers, collaborating with Chinese scientists, have discovered that pandas make clear and specific choices about what trees are...
An international team of researchers has found that the current distribution of cypress subfamilies reflects the breakup of the supercontinent Pangea that...
