Even in winter, when the leaves have dropped, the bark can use the available daylight to make sugars for the tree. Furthermore, green, photosynthetic tissue is found under the thin outer coverings ...

Yet only “Gray Tree” has scale-invariant branch diameters. When Mondrian removes the scale invariance in “Blooming Apple Tree ...

The scale invariance in branch diameter dictates how much smaller a limb should be as it branches and how much investment a ...

The beauty of Door County’s landscape owes thanks to the variety of trees growing here. Many are native, while others have ...

Winter is a time when your trees are vulnerable, and moisture loss can damage them or worse. But there are a few ways you can ...

UT's Jian Liu received a $300,000 grant to develop IoTree, a low-cost, battery-free plant monitoring system. This system uses sensors to track plant health indicators and wirelessly transmit data. The ...

If you can't "learn to live with them," Neil Sperry suggests a ground cover that makes mowing around them unnecessary ...

Scientists discovered a moth that appears 3D despite having flat wings. Tiny structures on its wings reflect light that ...

But while bog ecosystems provide habitat, filter water, and store carbon, they have been disappearing for decades. In Illinois alone, more than 90 percent of wetlands have been lost. There are about ...