Scientists made fake leaves and dropped them in water tanks to observe how different shapes move as they sink.

Iowa's silver maples and silver maple hybrids produced a surplus of seeds this year, likely as a response to several years of ...

While it can produce stunning blooms, this tree’s odor has been compared to dead fish, vomit, and urine, to name just a few ...

Sierra Leone’s present beauty and past pain are intimately bound. A journey from the West African country’s jungles to its ...

While people in the southern regions have Crepe Myrtle and Magnolias that bloom in spring, we have lilacs and crabapple trees ...

Noticing leaves on the ground under ash and maple trees causes us to look up into the trees where spots are seen on the ...

Two of my favorite flowering trees, and perhaps yours, too, are the redbud and lilacs. Both are just finishing their ...

"Data correlating shape and settling across a broad range of natural, mutated, and artificial leaves support the fast-leaf-hypothesis: Deciduous leaves are symmetric and relatively unlobed in part ...

Beach plums ( Prunus maritima) won't get to be very large, which means they can work well in smaller yards as a showpiece.

Two physicists from the Technical University of Denmark have found that leaf shape is a determining factor in the distance ...

Shape and symmetry help determine where a leaf lands — and if the tree it came from can recoup the leaf’s carbon as it decomposes.

Japanese aralia is a beautiful shrub can be planted in a shady area of the garden in temperate hardiness zones or grown as a ...