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In a groundbreaking discovery, botanists have identified a towering, ancient species of tree in Tanzania’s Udzungwa Mountains. Known as Tessmannia princeps, these giants stand at heights of up to 131 ...
Scientists discover a giant thousand-year-old tree called Tessmannia princeps, a new species that reaches 131 feed high and 3 ...
Brooklyn Botanic Garden celebrates 100 years of bonsai with a showcase of over 400 specimens, including trees from the 1700s.
Brooklyn Botanic Garden has opened a centennial exhibit celebrating its internationally respected bonsai collection.
A family tree manuscript dating back to the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) has been discovered in North China's Hebei province. It is believed to be significant to the study of social changes and family ...
A 400-year-old tree near Saint John, N.B., is at risk of being torn down amid an industrial park expansion.
A look inside a rare, 400-year-old tree found in the Lorneville area of Saint John offers a microscopic glimpse at the history and data that can be pulled from old growth trees as the supply of ...
Walking along a wooded trail in any corner of the province, you might see the odd tree that stretches higher than others, and has most of its branches near the top, typically spiralled and bent.Those ...
The Brooklyn Botanic Garden is celebrating the 100th anniversary of its renowned Bonsai collection, one of the oldest and largest outside of Japan.
How Brooklyn Botanic Garden's 100-Year-Old Bonsai Collection Grew The garden highlights its hundreds of living specimens including flowering and fragrant trees with tours, walks, and other programs ...
At almost 400 years old, the Endicott Pear Tree in Danvers is believed to be the oldest living cultivated fruit tree in all of North America.
Norm Geisinger is 82 years old, and he owns an 85-year-old bonsai tree that’s less than two feet tall. He’s owned the Lace-bark Chinese elm for 25 years. He’s the third owner. Geisinger, a ...