Trees & Plants

How Los Angeles Traffic Can Complicate the Aftermath of a Car Accident

Drivers in Los Angeles often plan their days around traffic conditions. According to census data, the average commute time to work in Los Angeles County is 30.4 minutes. INRIX...

Small Black Warblers Fly without Landing for Three Days

Small black Warblers that weigh (12 grams) about as much as a stack of 12 business cards fly thousands...

The Biak Scops Owl

IDENTIFICATION: A medium-sized Biak scops owl (c.25cm) with prominent ear tufts, lacking any trace of dark shaft streaks...

How Tech Advancements Help Owners Keep Their Pets Safe

Technology has come a long way in recent years, including advances that can help keep our pets safe....

Square-tailed Kite (Lophoictinia isura)

This long-winged, square-tailed kite (Lophoictinia isura) hunts like a harrier. In contrast to harriers, it skims and circles...

Dendrosenecio kilimanjari: The Giant Groundsel of Mount Kilimanjaro

Description: Kilimanjaro Mountain is known for its unique ability to attract isolated, mutated, and rare species of plants, animals, insects, and fungi that are almost...

Blue Bean: Unraveling the Wonders of a Truly Unique Legume

Origin: The blue bean is a shrub indigenous to western China, renowned for its striking metallic-blue pods resembling broad beans, and is often grown...

Begonia Pavonina – The Leaves Shimmer With An Iridescent Blue Glow

Begonia pavonina, also known as the Peacock Begonia, is a species of plant in the family Begoniaceae. It is native to the montane forests...

Juniper Tree – A Tree Useful in Landscape Plantings

Juniper Tree or Juniperus are trees that we call red cedar is really a juniper. But many others are shrub-like and as such are...

The Best Ferns to Grow Indoor

Ferns “Many Genera” give a better softening effect to an indoor environment, which makes them good houseplants. Many people are familiar with that old...

The Amazing Baobab Tree – A Tree of Life!

Grandidier’s Baobab Tree is the biggest and most well-known of Madagascar’s species of Baobabs. It is also known as “Adansonia grandidieri," actually an imposing...

Ginkgo biloba – Traditional Medicine Tree

This family includes a single species, which now survives in the wild in only a small area in southwest China. Ginkgo biloba is a...

The American Basswood Tree

The American basswood tree is native to eastern North America. The species is found from southeast Manitoba to New Brunswick, south to south Carolina,...

How to Take Care of Philodendron Plants?

Philodendron Plants Philodendron plants are a type of flowering plant that can be found in many homes today. They have a wide variety of colors...

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 the fir. They resemble each other in...