TLDR England has roughly 35 to 40 native tree species, depending on how you count. The ones you’ll meet most often are English oak, ash, beech, silver birch, hazel, rowan…
TLDR El Salvador’s national tree is the maquilishuat, which blooms pink from roughly February to April. The national flower is the izote, though its native status and official date are…
Temperate forests grow wild apples, pears, plums, cherries, persimmons, pawpaws, hawthorn haws, elderberries, blueberries, raspberries and blackberries, plus nuts like acorns, chestnuts and hazelnuts. Most ripen between late summer and…
Contents The scale of the problem Namibia is the driest country in sub-Saharan Africa, and that is exactly why invasive species hurt it so much. When water is the limit…
Laos grows fruit on a three-season clock, and the fruit you find depends almost entirely on the month. Mango and jackfruit arrive in the hot season, lychee, longan and rambutan…
Tropical rainforest trees are defined by four things: height, buttress roots, drip-tip leaves, and a level of diversity that has no match anywhere else. A single hectare of Amazon forest…
Congaree National Park protects the largest old-growth bottomland hardwood forest left in the United States, roughly 11,000 acres of it. It holds more than 25 champion trees and the tallest…
Which Guinea? A Quick Clarification Three countries carry the name: Guinea (capital Conakry), Guinea-Bissau, and Equatorial Guinea. There’s also the Guinea forest region, a belt of rainforest stretching along West…
Armenia is a small, landlocked country that somehow contains almost every forest type in the temperate world. The lowest point, the Debed Gorge in the north, sits at 375 meters….