Banyans usually grow on hardwood hammocks. They are considered a keystone species, essential to the hardwood tropical ...

But the researchers found three species of tropical trees in their study area that were previously documented to create growth rings. So they took samples from all three but found only fig trees ...

Lightning strikes may kill hundreds of millions of trees every year, but one tropical tree has evolved to benefit from the ...

The tonka bean tree, scientifically known as Dipteryx oleifera, has developed the ability to not only survive strikes but also to transfer the electricity from lightning to its “enemies” and the ...

Almendro’ (Dipteryx oleifera), a tropical tree native to Panama’s rainforests, has stunned scientists with its surprising reaction to lightning: it thrives. While most trees might wither or ...

Though being struck by lightning is usually bad, the tropical tree Dipteryx oleifera benefits. A strike kills other nearby trees and parasitic vines.

The large leaves of the aguaje, a tropical palm tree that grows in the peatlands and other seasonal wetland areas in tropical ...

Lightning is usually seen as a harbinger of destruction in forests, killing or damaging trees in their blasts. But in the ...

On average, each lightning hit destroyed over 2.4 tons (2 metric tons) of adjacent tree biomass and approximately 80 percent of the lianas (parasitic vines) that plagued the tonka bean canopy. As per ...

Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., April 10, 2025. REUTERS/Jeenah Moon/File Photo Investors pulled out of U.S. bond funds heavily in the week ...