Tree of heaven is highly invasive and incredibly difficult to eradicate. Learn how to control ailanthus and manage its unchecked spread.

Sourwood trees offer year-round interest with their flowers, fall foliage, and attractive bark. Oakleaf hydrangeas are excellent shade-loving shrubs with large, showy flower clusters and colorful fall ...

Most tree and shrub bark is brown, often smooth and sometimes gnarled – but a few plants have colourful bark that, in many cases, flakes away to reveal patches of different underlying colours.

Green bark is found on trees and shrubs of many different, unrelated species. In Australia, young bottle trees of Queensland forest and scrubland have green bark that turns dark with age.

They are understory trees that like to stretch themselves for a little extra dab of sunlight and that is when you can spot them. I love this native tree, called sourwood (Oxydendrum arboretum).

Tree bark surfaces play an important role in removing methane gas from the atmosphere. Tree bark surfaces play an important role in removing methane gas from the atmosphere, according to a study ...

A new study published in the journal Nature has found that tree bark surfaces play a crucial role in removing methane gas from the atmosphere. While scientists have long known that trees have an ...

Pam Baxter stands beside a Black Gum tree at the Rockford Museum in Wilmington, Del. (Photo courtesy Pam Baxter) The sourwood tree ... and deeply grooved, brown bark provide visual interest ...

Melbourne: Why do trees have bark? Julien, age 6, Melbourne. This is a great question, Julien. We are so familiar with bark on trees, that most of us just take it for granted. But bark is one of ...

This is a great question, Julien. We are so familiar with bark on trees, that most of us just take it for granted. But bark is one of the most complex parts of a tree and has many different jobs ...

Healthy tree bark grows in different colors and is often a nice rich brown, but can also be gray or white. Natural tree colors vary but when your normally dark-colored bark starts to turn white, it ...

To humans, eating the bark of trees likely seems quite unpalatable. But for many animals with the proper digestive system, tree bark actually supplies an abundant source of nutrition, especially in ...