Question: We have a small grove of soapberry trees. The city recently reconstructed the street and added a side walk which now sets as close at 1 foot from the nearest tree. Everything seemed fine ...
CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / CRUSSELL@STARADVERTISER.COM The fruit of the manele, or Hawaiian soapberry tree, pictured here at the Liliuokalani Botanical Garden, has sticky and waxy flesh. Switch gears and ...
Honolulu Star-Advertiser: Berries of the manele tree look better than they taste
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: Peffley: Drought-tolerant ornamental trees a good choice for West Texas
Today's column expands upon a question from an A-J reader about a choice of trees for our area. Three horticulturally interesting ornamental trees tolerant to limited water are highlighted this week.
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.
A tree's age can be easily determined by counting its growth rings, as any Boy or Girl Scout knows. Annually, the tree adds new layers of wood which thicken during the growing season and thin during the winter. These annual growth rings are easily discernible (and countable) in cross-sections of the tree's trunk. In good growing years, when sunlight and rainfall are plentiful, the growth rings ...