Trees nearest the mines had higher concentrations of mercury in their rings. Passive air sampling confirmed the mercury ...

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

Banyans start their lives as epiphytes germinated from sticky seeds ... short leaf fig, is the other). It is one of the most interesting trees in a North American Everglades tropical hardwood ...

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A dwarf lemon is flourishing nearby, next to large containers holding rosemary, a Mexican lime tree and a small manzanita.

High above tropical forests, fig wasps are often the predominant ... pyre once burned at this location or a banyan seed hatched in another tree. Thimmamma Marrimanu’s biology and mythology ...

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

A new study led by researchers at Washington University in St. Louis and the Missouri Botanical Garden has uncovered a ...

“The Seed of the Sacred Fig” depicts an individual, a family and a regime coming apart at its roots. Rasoulof named this film after the sacred fig, an invasive species that slowly takes over the tree ...