In fantasy worlds, trees like the Lord of the Rings’ Ents are agile and mobile. In the real world, they’re slow.

Ecological study recognizes a wide range of ecosystems with biological interactions often varying greatly among different ...

If you walk through a forest and look down, you might think you're stepping on dead leaves, twigs and soil. In reality, ...

To protect the Auckland icons unique nature, 1,012 wilding pines have been removed from the island in a five-week, ground ...

This film explores gymnosperms, a class of non-flowering seed plants, primarily represented by conifers in North America. It discusses their unique reproductive processes, including the production ...

Bunya pines are culturally significant for First Nations peoples in South East Queensland, and their nuts are now a trending superfood.

Even if you aren’t familiar with the term conifer, you certainly know many types, such as spruces, pines, junipers, and firs. You see them when buying plants for your landscape and purchasing ...

Every year, as a normal part of a conifer’s growth cycle, evergreens will experience a certain amount of needle drop. The extent and speed at which needles fall varies from species to species.

Most conifers are evergreen trees, but a few are deciduous. Pines have needles that are bundled together at their base by a papery sheath called a fascicle. Needles are typically in bundles of 2, 3, ...

All pines are conifers, but all conifers are not pines; and further, all pines make cones, but all cones are not “pine cones.” Such details swirled through my mind as I walked Loveland’s ...

In the Sandhills region of North Carolina, a golfer could lose track of all the Donald Ross designs with conifer-themed names. That, anyway, is what happened to me. Over the years, having three ...