What shape is a tree? For most people, it’s like a lollipop or a feather duster: a single trunk topped by a green bunch of branches and leaves. “Not all trees are like that,” said Sharon Yiesla, plant ...

In northeastern Brazil, there is a tree so vast that visitors often mistake it for an entire grove. The paths wind beneath ...

If you’ve driven or walked down a street and spotted tree trunks wrapped with sheet metal, you may have been stumped. These reflective, metal cuffs can be seen everywhere from Charlotte to Los Angeles ...

With trees, as with elephants and in swimming, trunks are important. They’re part of trees’ beauty, strength, majesty, and mystique. We have things to discuss. Like people, trunks come in all shapes ...

Multiple trees in Trinity Park along University Drive have wood planks along the trunks. Megan Cardona, Fort Worth Star-Telegram Find Out, Fort Worth: The Star-Telegram answers your questions. Our ...

Oklahoma has a very unique forest alongside Interstate 35 in the vicinity of the OKC Zoo. That woodland has lots and lots of unusual oak trees growing therein; the trees of which I speak are saddled ...

Tree trunks are more than just wood—they’re living records of everything a tree’s been through. From growth spurts to natural disasters, tree rings and dark lines inside trunks reveal secrets that are ...

Q. I just planted a fruit tree and was told by a friend that I should paint the trunk with white paint. I really don’t like the idea of a tree painted with white paint in my front yard. Is it really ...

Q: My dad helped me plant a couple of young apple trees in my backyard last weekend and so far, so good. After we finished I said the only thing I had left to do was paint the trunks white. He looked ...