You may be familiar with the most common dog wood species, but did you know there are many more fascinating options you can ...

English ivy (Hedera helix), a heavy, woody vine with handsome, dark-green, waxy leaves, is believed to have been brought to the New World by European colonists in the 1700s. They likely appreciated ...

A prominent Zimbabwean illustrator and animator has embarked on a project to replace "silly" colonial-era names of trees with their native ones. Tafadzwa Tarumbwa wants names like sausage tree and ...

The bois d’arc is a tree with many names, including beau d’arc, Osage orange, horse apple, hedge apple and bodark. French explorers named the tree bois d’arc (wood of the bow) because the American ...

In my travels this past week I’ve seen a lot of catalpa trees covered with clusters of bell-shaped white flowers. Northern catalpas are native to this part of the country, but there are other catalpas ...

If you live near a walnut tree, there’s no escaping hearing the hard plunking sound of falling nuts this time of year.