Knowing a tree’s species is key to understanding their proper growing conditions, how to prune them and what insect and ...

Training one’s eye to identify trees is a fun way to connect with the world around us and can be useful for making home landscape selections. Trees are often identified using leaf shape and color, ...

The Arbor Day Foundation has a booklet that helps people identify trees in a simple, step-by-step process. The booklet, What Tree Is That?, is available for a $5 donation to the nonprofit ...

The Arbor Day Foundation has created an inexpensive tool for helping people develop a greater appreciation for trees. The “What Tree is That?” book is an easy-to-use identification guide featuring ...

Purdue Landscape Report: Pruning is an important maintenance practice on trees that is discussed a great deal. An essential part of making the pruning cut properly is the ability to identify the parts ...

Plant Ecology, Vol. 212, No. 12, Ecology of plant resprouting in fire-prone ecosystems (DECEMBER 2011), pp. 2057-2069 (13 pages) We investigated the fire resistance conferred by bark of seven common ...