Another champion tree near it was badly damaged, which has roots to Lincoln's New Salem. A once towering Northern Catalpa tree that stood along a rural highway in Menard County snapped at its base ...

The Catalpa tree, pronounced kuh·tal·puh, is one of the most showy and impressive summer-flowering trees. This picture does not do this tree justice. The Catalpa tree is also known as the Cigar tree, ...

Less traditional choices include the often-overlooked cork, gingko and catalpa trees as well as different strains of the classics—all hardy for the surrounding region (USDA Zone 4 ...

The team also studied the light emitted from the leaves of thale cress and dwarf umbrella trees, and found that when these plants were under stress from chemicals or heat, they produced even more ...

The team also studied the light emitted from the leaves of thale cress and dwarf umbrella trees, and found that when these plants were under stress from chemicals or heat, they produced even more glow ...

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Scientists observed a radiant and intriguing physical phenomenon in mice and leaves that might suggest that all living things emit light until they die. At first glance, the proposition that every ...

(Salari et al., J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2025) A process carried out on thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana) and dwarf umbrella tree (Heptapleurum arboricola) leaves revealed similarly bold results.

The leafy woods surround us with pleasant soughing; the soothing sound contrasts with whistling and moaning of wintry winds in bare trees. And then come these spring windstorms! Many trees with ...