Champion of the oppressed and wrongfully vilified, Grumpy stands ready his shine his Beacon of Truth on any misunderstood plant. Today, he happily parts the gloom enshrouding what is arguably the most ...

It is also a very long-lived species — up to 500 years and more. Three-foot diameter trees are not uncommon, and these would ...

I love tree-lined avenues. Roads with stately trees on both sides form a canopy over the pavement and sidewalks and add a sense of home. I have never lived in a suburb or city home, but I imagine ...

Once upon a time, there were two species of trees: the Sycamore and the Plane. Platanus occidentalis was the American Sycamore, and Platanus orientalis, was the Oriental Plane. They were separated by ...

The trunks of large sycamores along river valleys throughout Western North Carolina are displaying their bone-white architecture. Like snakes shedding their skins, sycamores exfoliate outer bark so ...

This was originally heard in September 2025. Earlier this fall, the Something Wild team, Dave Anderson of the Forest Society, and Chris Martin and Grace McCulloch of NH Audubon, brought a measuring ...

Editor's note: Once a month, the OSU Extension master gardener's office of Franklin County profiles a plant that occurs naturally in central Ohio. A scan of stream and river banks in this part of the ...