Besides its branches, roots, and leaves, a mature tree also grows another important structure—the flower (or cone, in the case of evergreens). Flowers are the reproductive structures from which ...

Matt Mattia used both hands to flip through the branch at his eye level, studying each side of every leaf as sunlight ...

Nature News:Squirrels aren't so bad after all Typical deciduous trees that lose their leaves every winter create a separation zone (abscission layer) between the leaf stem and the branch.

Eco-friendly, affordable, and natural, foraged items like branches and leaves make some of the best fall decor. Learn the best types of trees, shrubs, and leaves to search for and how to best ...

Like the branches, twigs and leaves of a tree, fractals repeat the same patterns across different scales. Snowflakes, lightning bolts and human blood vessels are also fractal structures ...

The rainbow of colors show up once trees stop producing ... where the stem meets the branch. They're called abscission cells. "It's creating cells that push the leaf off. So it's not quite as ...