pv magazine International: Kenhardt Solar Site Protects Local Quiver Trees for the Future
There’s a very long and delicious word that best describes a quiver tree forest: phantasmagorical. These giant succulent tree aloes look like the backdrop for a dark and stormy Tim Burton movie, with ...
This shot of quiver trees in drought-stricken hills in Namibia won the Individuals and Populations (Plants and Fungi) category. “Although this landscape seems dominated by singular quiver trees, the ...
Botany professor emeritus Timm Hoffman and his colleagues are seeing eddies of dune sand piling up around quiver trees at study sites in northwestern South Africa. Hoffman has been studying the iconic ...
Photo taken on shows quiver trees under the stars in Keetmanshoop, southern Namibia. The quiver tree is an aloe vera plant that can adapt to the dry and hot climate of Namibia. The ...
The most obvious characteristic of this emblematic tree of southern Namibia is its thick, pale trunk the smooth bark of which splits into lovely patterns. Each branch is topped by a rosette of yellowy ...
Interior Alaskan forests have only six native tree species: white spruce, black spruce, quaking aspen, balsam poplar, larch (tamarack) and paper birch. Northern Canadian forests have all of those, plus jack pine, balsam fir and lodgepole pine. Since northern Canada and interior Alaska share the same grueling climate and extremes of daylength, why are the Canadian tree species absent from ...
It is common for people in interior Alaska and corresponding areas of northwestern Canada to use the name cottonwood when referring to one widespread variety of deciduous tree.