Monstera Albo – The Rare White Monstera
If you're looking for a plant that is both rare and unusual, then you should consider growing a Monstera albo. This plant is sure to add interest and intrigue to your home. Have you ever seen a Monstera with white leaves? It's quite a sight to behold! This unique plant, Monstera albo, is one of the most beautiful varieties...
Pando – The One Tree Forest
The Pando or “The Trembling Giant” of one tree forest is a massive grove of quaking aspens that takes the “forest as a single organism” metaphor and literalizes it. Although, the grove is a single organism, roughly 47,000 trees are genetically similar to having a single root system. However, various trees spread through flowering and sexual reproduction; quaking aspens...
Ficus – Most Popular House Plant
One of the most popular houseplants is the weeping fig, also called Ficus benjamina”, normally just called “ficus”. Though related to the edible fig, it does not bear fruit, but it makes a beautiful display as an indoor plant. Thus, a bushy tree that might grow up to 50 feet in its native Malaya.
It can easily be kept...
Hyperion ! World’s Tallest Knowing Living Tree
Hyperion is the name of a coast redwood (Sequoia Sempervirens) in Northern California. It was measured at 115.61 metres (379.3 feet). Which ranks it as the world's tallest known living tree. Hyperion is the world’s tallest tree. The tree is estimated to contain 18,600 cubic feet (530 m3) of wood and to be roughly 700–800 years old. Therefore in Feb...
The Black Sapote – Chocolate Pudding Fruit
The Black Sapote “Diospyros nigra” is a species of persimmon in the family Ebenaceae. It is also called “chocolate pudding fruit” and black snap apple. Black Sapote is a tropical fruit mostly grown in Mexico, Central America, The Caribbean, and Colombia. Sapote means soft edible fruit and has no relation with white sapote or mamey sapote. The tree can...
Linden Tree – Tall, Fast Growing Dense Shade Tree
Linden Tree is tall and fast-growing, with an attractive, dense shape. They are used as shade trees and often as street trees. They bear dangling clusters of fragrant white flowers in early summer. Little leaf Linden or Tilia cordata a European tree is among the best. It grows up to 90 feet tall in a dense compact pyramid and...
A Rare Sight of Double Tree of Casorzo
A rare sight of a double tree of Casorzo growing atop another tree Of course, it's not a sight that you get to see every day. But here you can learn about a unique tree growing between Grana and Casorzo in Piemonte, Italy, recognized as the “Double Tree of Casorzo” or Bialbero de Casorzo in Italian. This is a...
Larch – An Evergreen Wild Tree
Larches look for the entire world like evergreen trees. Larches are conifers in the genus Larix, in the family Pinaceae. Larch is also called Larix, is a long waving twigs that have tufts of small needles; they even have cones. But come fall those needles turn yellow and fall off just like the leaves of any deciduous tree.
And...
Top 25 Oak Facts You Should Know
Oak Facts
The oak tree is a deciduous tree that grows in temperate zones around the world, and it is one of the most important trees in the world. Oak trees are evergreen, which means that they keep their leaves all year round. They can grow for hundreds of years and live for about 500 years. The oldest oak tree...
5 Reasons Why You Should Add Clay Soil to Your Garden
Add Clay Soil to Your Garden
Clay is a thick, reddish soil, but it has a variety of nutrients. Some gardeners struggle with its thick texture and slow water absorption and avoid using it. But if you discover its usefulness and benefits as garden soil, you will be equipped to make it an asset in your garden. Here are some...
Plants to Beat Tight Chests, Insomnia and Colds
Plants You Need in Your Bedroom to Beat Tight Chests, Insomnia, and Colds. NASA scientists say, that you need to keep plants in your bedroom to beat different diseases, i.e. colds, tight chests, and insomnia. Although plants look very beautiful in gardens scientists maintain that we can reap plenty of health benefits from plants by bringing them indoors. Researchers...
Pink Trumpet Tree Tabebuia heterophylla
The eye-catching Pink Trumpet Tabebuia heterophylla Tree grows at a reasonable rate from a slim pyramid when young to a broad silhouette, 20 to 40 feet tall. The palmately compound green leaves are evergreen throughout most of their range but may be briefly deciduous as the new leaves emerge. The showy display of pink or white, bell-shaped blooms appears...
Coffee Tree – Combination of Foliage and Flowering Plants
Although it doesn’t produce coffee beans when grown as a house plant, the Coffee Tree, with its glossy green leaves. It is an ideal choice for a strong display of foliage. The Coffee Tree makes a dramatic feature on its own or in combination with foliage or flowering plants.
The Coffee Tree originally from Africa was introduced to Europe in...
Magnolia Tree – A Handsome Ornamental Tree
The magnolias are handsome ornamental trees. The Magnolia Tree with its showy flowers, its dark green leaves, and its relatively small size. Magnolia Tree is a large genus of about 210 flowering plant species in the subfamily Magnolioideae of the family Magnoliaceae. It is named after French botanist Pierre Magnol.
They are generally thought of as southern plants, but...
Why Drunken Trees Behave in Mysterious Way
What are Drunken Trees?
Drunken trees are a stand of trees displaced from their normal vertical alignment. This most commonly occurs in northern subarctic taiga forests of black spruce under which intermittent permafrost or ice wedges have melted, causing trees to tilt at various angles. Some trees survive their soil eroding and continue to grow. Others collapse or drown as...
The Puzzling Phenomenon of Bleeding Tooth Fungus
Bleeding Tooth Fungus (Hydnellum Peckii) is a type of mushroom that is commonly found in North America, Europe, and Asia. It is known for its distinctive bright red color, which is due to the presence of heme compounds in its tissue. The red sap produced by the Bleeding Tooth Fungus is a result of excess moisture generated through respiration...
Unbelievable Tree of 40 Fruits
New York-based artist Sam Van Ken created a tree of 40 fruits using the ancient technique of “chip grafting." His family lives in Pennsylvania, and he grew up on the family farm. He’s an associate professor of sculpture at Syracuse University.
Therefore, each tree produces forty different types of stone fruit of the genus Prunus, ripening sequentially from July...
ALDERS, Alnus species
ALDERS, Alnus species
Alders belong to the birch family Betulaceae and belong to the genus Alnus. Around 35 monoecious species of trees and shrubs are found in this genus. The leaves of alders are alternate, simple, serrated, and deciduous with a few exceptions. Usually, before leaves appear, the flower buds develop into catkins with elongated males and females on one...
Unique and Interesting Facts About Limber Pine Cones
Limber Pine Cones
Did you know that the limber pine cone is one of the longest cones in the world? It can grow up to 18 inches long! These cones are also unique in that they hang from the tree branches rather than sticking out like other pine cones. In this blog post, we will discuss some more interesting facts...
Purslane (Portulaca oleracea)
Description: The purslane plant (Portulaca oleracea) is a very common weed in moist, sandy soils. However, French gardeners have developed specific varieties for salads. It is also known as parsley or little hogweed.
According to scientists, Native Americans had already eaten the plant, and their seeds spread to other tribes. Currently, it is unknown how it reached the United States....
Spruce – An Evergreen Symmetrical Spire Shape Tree
Spruces or Picea are tall, fast growing evergreen trees with symmetrical spire shapes. You can distinguish them from firs. Which they resemble, in two ways; spruce needles can be rolled between the fingers, whereas the needles of the fir and hemlock feel flat. And Picea cones hang from the branches rather then sit on top of them.
A spruce...
The Dead Man’s Fingers
Xylaria polymorpha, generally known as dead man's fingers, is a saprobic fungus. The plant habitually inhabitant of forest and woodland areas, normally growing from the bases of rotting or injured tree stumps and decaying wood.
The Xylaria polymorpha is a very rare and distinct species of fungus that is widely distributed throughout the deciduous forests of North America and Europe....
Willows, Salix spp.
Origin and history: Willows comprise a large number of trees and shrubs, mainly in the Northern Hemisphere. For this article, we will only cover some of the tree willows and their uses. As a result of their shallow root systems, tree willows are common riverside plants that help stabilize riverbanks with their large, shallow roots. Willow is the common name...
What is Succulent Plant?
A beginner garden wants to know, what is Succulent plant. Well, the succulents have moved in and out of American gardens and homes on the tides of popularity. They are dramatic, exciting, and always interesting. A succulent garden can be a beautiful landscape specimen that blends perfectly with contemporary architecture, a beautiful house plant that requires almost no maintenance,...
Spectacular Yellow Flowering Golden Chain Tree
The spectacular springtime show of yellow flowers gives Laburnum its common name Golden Chain Tree or golden rain. But the laburnum also has its dark side, for it is one of the most poisonous trees growing in the British Isles. Like so many of the more colorful trees that grow in Britain. This lovely tree is not native to...