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In the sweltering heat that descended in recent weeks, I am especially aware of the cooling effect of urban trees. In the ...

NOUN: “any of a genus…of toothed-leaved trees or shrubs of the birch family that have catkins which become woody, that typically grow in cool moist ground, and that have wood used especially in ...

Every year the eastern cottonwood trees in Michigan release their fluffy seeds. The end of June likely marks the end of this process. Here's what to know.

In honour of World Earth Day on Tuesday, April 22, Gorey Tidy Towns planted a grove of 21 trees on a green space.

Expect increased tree pollen in D.C. this weekend due to warm weather, affecting seasonal allergy sufferers. Oak pollen is particularly high amid sunny days.

One of the advantages of early flowering (before their leaves and the leaves of other trees are out) is so that the wind-dispersed pollen (released by the dangling catkins) has fewer obstacles ...

Birch trees sport separate male and female flowers. The male flowers grow as a cluster. Each cluster is brown and about 1- to 2-inches long and 1/8-inch wide and called a catkin. The name is of Dutch ...

But winter tree identification is not just about twigs, it’s about looking in detail at tree shape, the branches, the bark and colour, and in some cases the smell, he adds.

IT is usual for 5–10 years to elapse before catkins are borne on seedling trees of birch (Betula spp.). The existence of this non-flowering or juvenile period (up to 40 years in some genera) is ...