Tonka Bean Trees in Panama Can Survive Lightning Strikes And Then Use that Charge to Take Down ‘Clingy Partners’ All ecosystems envelop within themselves peculiar strategies that make them ...

JOHN PATRICK: The Indian Bean Tree -Catalpa bignonioides- is probably too large for the average garden and yet, here's a really good way of growing it that makes it suitable for even a relatively ...

But the opposite appears to be the case for the towering tonka bean tree (Dipteryx oleifera), a native of the rainforests of Panama that grows up to 130 feet tall and lives for hundreds of years.

Trees that bear beans with medicinal properties in central Vietnam’s Quang Nam Province are being poached, with several people killed in the process. The “uoi” tree, or the sterclia lyhnophora, mainly ...

In short: The main coffee tree grown in Australia, introduced from Kenya in the 1980s, grows too tall for it to be easily harvested. Scientists have identified three new coffee trees from Central ...

Terviva's Australia based senior manager commercialisation Kevin Swanepoel in the trial pongamia orchard in central Queensland. Picture by Judith Maizey. Beans from an Australian native tree, ...

The tonka bean tree (Dipteryx oleifera) may actually benefit from being struck by lightning, according to a new study.Scientists discovered that these trees not only survive these electrical ...

Black bean trees flower profusely. Tatters/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND. We found evidence Bundjalung groups spread black bean thousands of years ago, as they walked the ridgelines of the Nightcap, Border ...

The Northern Lights celebration also traditionally serves as an official kickoff for L.L. Bean’s holiday shopping season, and despite the challenges, officials project sales this year will ...

Cocoa beans come from the fruit of a rainforest tree, Theobroma cacao.Thought to originate from the upper Amazon and cultivated by the Mayans and Aztecs for thousands of years, cocoa trees are now ...