The rubber tree, scientifically known as Hevea brasiliensis, plays a crucial role in both ecosystems and human industry. Originating from the Amazon rainforest, this tree has become globally ...

fallen-in trees and shady with overhanging trees. The water was tea coloured, had hardly any aquatic vegetation and in a flooding rainforest region. Notes: A. personata was described by Kullander in ...

The world’s largest tree has been rigorously dated for the first time, confirming it is at least 16,000 years old. Named Pando, the tree is a quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) with around ...

DNA samples from one of the world’s largest and oldest plants — a quaking aspen tree (Populus tremuloides) in Utah called Pando — have helped researchers to determine its age and revealed ...

CLIMATEWIRE | More than a third of the world’s tree species are at risk of extinction, according to findings by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. The group said that its first ...