Walk into any Florida swamp and the first tree you notice is almost always a cypress. It’s also the one most visitors assume is the only tree there. It isn’t….
Trees of Canada: A Field Guide by Region
TLDR Canada has roughly 140 native tree species, and almost all of them are either conifers (needles or scales, cones) or broadleaves (flat leaves, seeds in keys, nuts or catkins)….
Trees of Syria: What Grows There and What Remains
Syria is not the all-desert country most people picture. The trees of Syria grow in four fairly distinct belts: pine, fir and cedar forest on the western mountains, oak woodland…
Huge Trees: The Biggest, Tallest, and Widest on Earth
TLDR Contents Huge means four different things Ask “what’s the biggest tree in the world” and you’ll get three or four different answers, all correct. A tree can win on…
Invasive Species in Acadia National Park: A Field Guide
Contents Nearly a third of the plant species growing in Acadia aren’t from here. That is the headline fact about invasive species in Acadia National Park, and it surprises people…
What Are Rainforest Producers? The Plants Behind It All
TL;DR A rainforest producer is any organism that makes its own food through photosynthesis instead of eating something else. In a tropical rainforest, that means towering canopy trees like kapok…
Taiga Nuts Explained: What They Are and How to Buy Them
Table of Contents If you searched “taiga nuts” expecting to find a distinct nut variety, you’re chasing a term that doesn’t really exist in botany. There’s no tree called a…
Tree Examples: A Categorized Guide to Common Species
If you landed here from a computer science assignment, this isn’t that kind of tree — no nodes, no root, no Big O. This is about the kind with bark,…
Trees of Bulgaria: A Field Guide to 20 Native Species
Roughly a third of Bulgaria is forest, and most “trees of Bulgaria” pages you’ll find are either a 150-name Latin database or a folklore essay that never tells you what…