Trees continue to get our attention as we work our way through this greening month of May. After standing bare for seven months of cold temperatures, they burst forth with new leaves during these warm ...

Unlike all the fancy and popular Japanese plums and European prunes, wild plum, Prunus americana, is almost never planted intentionally. It is a common understock for the more desirable types, and ...

A new study on chimpanzees in Uganda and Côte d'Ivoire supports a theory that humans may have inherited a taste for alcohol from primate ancestors.

Wild plum, or Prunus americana, may be the wallflower of native fruit trees - because even though it is one of the most abundant native trees, it usually goes unnoticed as it grows along roadsides on ...

Western North Dakota grows wild plums. In the patches of brush where the poison ivy sneaks and the cows go to get away from the flies. They start as blossoms on the thorny branches and, under the hot ...

Roy Jackson didn't fully realize what a 12-acre-farm he bought nearly 15 years ago meant to the community until he accidentally killed a stand of wild plum trees at its west edge and dozens of ...

You’d be surprised how long some trees last…if properly maintained…and how soon the trees will start to produce.

Being refined can be a desirable quality. It reflects a process in which the best possible features have been distilled and are on display. With this refining process there are traits which are ...

I would like to add some native trees to my yard. I am also interested in adding fruit production to my gardening plan. What Missouri native trees would be appropriate for landscaping and also produce ...

On Monday, a team of 80 people led by Hjalmar S. Kuhl and Ammie K. Kalan published an open-access paper in Nature's "Scientific Reports" that describes never-before-seen stone-throwing behavior among ...

Apples are from Central Asia. But that doesn’t guarantee they will survive there forever. Climate change and human activity are threatening the wild apple with “local and regional extinction” in its ...