Noah Fields Drake returned to Fayetteville late in the summer of 1912, bringing his wife, Mary, and two young daughters, Doris and Vera. A native of Summers, 20 miles to the west, he had attended ...

Long-term exposure to wildfire smoke may be depleting the energy reserves of California’s orchard trees — reducing their nut ...

The American black walnut (Juglan nigra) is a tree native to North America and its hard-to-crack but flavorful and nutritious ...

Black walnut trees grow straight up with minimal lower branches. The branches are firm and hairy, with bark deeply ridged out onto the branches. The most characteristic feature of this type of tree is ...

Exposure to megafire smoke can reduce yields of almond, walnut and pistachio trees. Study shows smoke reduces a tree's energy reserves long after a fire ends.

A Kansas gardening expert is giving out her advice on how to eat and enjoy black walnuts this fall. Cynthia Domenghini, a horticulture expert with Kansas State University, said in a recent publication ...

Now that fall has arrived, the husks have started falling from trees to reveal a brown one-eyed nut, known as the buckeye ... horsechesnut family and can grow up to 60 feet.

The research also showed that smoke exposure had lasting effects. Trees exposed to smoke for a long time had lower ...