Purchase trees from a local nursery and plant between spring and early fall. Tulip trees do best in a sunny spot that has ...

Looking for relief from the sun? These seven fast-growing shade trees are perfect for creating a cooler, more comfortable backyard in a short time.

Trees with especially unique leaves include ginkgo, sassafras, yellow poplar, and mulberry. Here, we explore the various classifications that foresters study when identifying trees by leaf shapes.

Deciduous trees shed their leaves annually, losing around 40 percent of the carbon they have assimilated, and substantial amounts of nutrients in the process. But they do not have to be lost ...

Most leaves fell quickly, — even lobed oak leaves — within 10 percent of the speed of the fastest possible shape (a circle, which fell in their tank at 1.37 centimeters per second), while the ...

Besides its branches, roots, and leaves, a mature tree also grows another important structure—the flower (or cone, in the case of evergreens). Flowers are the reproductive structures from which ...

Japanese maple trees are beautiful deciduous trees that produce delicately shaped leaves, providing wonderful texture and color in the landscape. These trees are long-lived, on the shorter side, and ...

These trees go bare because in winter’s harshness, leaves can’t store enough energy to make up for the water a tree loses through them. And by letting go of their foliage on their own schedule ...

Lombardy poplar is a variety of black poplar. Its leaves are diamond shaped or almost triangular, uniformly green in summer, then turning bright yellow before falling in autumn. A male clone, it only ...

Diverse varieties, such as the quaking aspen, cottonwoods, and Lombardy poplar, each exhibit unique traits while maintaining the quintessential poplar appearance. Their leaves, typically heart-shaped ...