Branches should be protected and only pruned if dead wood appears. Dead branches are hard to work on but will cause the tree to decline if not removed. Monkey Puzzle in Europe Monkey-puzzle was ...

The Monkey Puzzle tree was planted by John and Josephine Bowes ... But now museum staff are hoping to give it a lasting legacy by using the wood from its trunk for a unique fundraising project.

OK, to backtrack, the Courant ran an article in October — written by this reporter — about a monkey puzzle tree being donated by Friends of Elizabeth Park and the city of Hartford to the ...

The ancient monkey puzzle tree has distinctive spiny leaves and intricate scaly branches. Its unusual features, scientists believe, evolved as a defense against towering, long-necked dinosaurs.

How the Monkey Puzzle Tree found its way to Elizabeth Park was, well, a puzzle. “It’s been in our greenhouse for 30 years; we have no idea when it came here. Nobody has any history,” Kathy ...

Among notable exceptions is monkey puzzle tree, aka devil’s tree. Up to 80 feet tall and 35 feet wide, this coniferous native of Chile is splendid and a little bit spooky. A cousin of the more ...