Prior to the European colonization of North America, Indigenous Americans harvested the wood of redbud trees to construct ...

This guide will explain all of the key characteristics of the black oak tree so you identify it on your next forest exploration. Description Simple leaves about 3-9 inches long with lobes and ...

Below the canopy, the understory is a low-light layer dominated by shorter plants with broad leaves, such as palms and philodendrons. On the dark forest floor, few plants are able to grow and ...

“The exact dating of these landscapes hasn’t been done yet, but fossils resembling the Myristica seeds and leaves have been ... states The Dark Forest. It also supports a wide variety of ...

Pine needles and decaying leaves. Flecks of moss or lichen ... and two types of mites meet in the uppermost layer of soil in the Black Forest. Mites are particularly important to forest ecosystems ...