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Elephant apple from ... is the highest in Jamaica. Originally, its generous allotment of 600 acres had been envisioned as a plantation of "Peruvian bark," or cinchona trees, from which the anti ...

Pruning an apple tree can seem like a daunting ... Rubbing damages bark leaving a wound for disease organisms to enter the tree. Cut out all branches that are growing back toward the center ...

Bark beetle-infested spruce trees begin to dry out already before any visible signs of tree mortality appear, a recent study shows. Bark beetle-infested spruce trees begin to dry out already ...

From the tree’s perspective, the bark may have varied functions. Tree bark is involved with water storage and with mechanical support of the tree. Coastal redwood trees commonly have extremely ...

Puerto Rico is Spanish for “rich port,” and it’s a fitting name for this beautiful island with year-round tropical, people, history, and trees ... as the little apple of death. This is because of the ...

It was not an unreasonable question—I have a garden, it contains six apple trees, and apple season was ... the ways in which gardening can be, as Jamaica Kincaid says, “a conversation.” ...

Dear Grant, William and Kate, When I was little, I liked to climb trees. I loved to grip the bark as I got higher and higher. Now I mostly hug trees – but I still love the way bark feels under ...

One of the Norfolk pine trees at The Block in Port Shepstone has been stripped of its bark. Concerns have been raised over the rise in bark-stripping of trees along the South Coast. One beautiful ...

Trees absorb methane (CH 4) through their bark, thanks to methane-hungry microbes. Through this mechanism, forests could be as much of a methane sink as soil, according to a study published July ...

Tree bark surfaces play an important role in removing methane gas from the atmosphere, according to a study published today (24 July) in Nature. While trees have long been known to benefit climate ...