Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. In the biology of pine trees, the cone is actually not the seed at all, but a ...

Called “the tree of peace” by Native Americans, Pinus strobus or eastern white pine is a beautiful evergreen that is well populated in the New Jersey landscape. As a young tree, it has a pyramidal ...

Pine nuts are not actually nuts at all, but the seeds of evergreen pine trees. The seeds grow under the scales of pine cones and take about three years to reach maturity. The cones are harvested, ...

A rare pine tree dubbed the "dinosaur tree" because as a species it is millions of years old, has produced seeds for the first time, after being nurtured for a decade in the UK. The Wollemi pine is ...

The prehistoric tree is one of the rarest trees in the world and the species is potentially facing extinction A rare pine tree dubbed the "dinosaur tree" because as a species it is millions of years ...

Do you envision turning a favorite corner of your home into a lush tropical oasis? If this spot gets plenty of bright light, you might want to think about growing a gorgeous evergreen tropical tree in ...

Look up the next time you pass a pine tree in Michiana — chances are it's loaded with cones. Conditions this season are ripe for an abundance of these woody reproductive organs of pine trees, and they ...

Seeds from the only surviving black pine tree planted by suffragettes are to be given to COP26 summit delegates. Suffragettes planted an arboretum of 47 trees in Batheaston, Somerset 112 years ago, ...

Have you taken down your Christmas tree yet? We haven’t, but that’s no surprise. We usually don’t get our tree taken down in a timely fashion. Our family record is the middle of March. Then again, we ...