The removal of 50 mature street trees lining the California Avenue business district has some residents, shoppers and merchants upset. The tree removal began on Monday, after the City of Palo Alto ...

A beloved sugar maple slowly succumbed to disease. Today, it lives on in a new form. A beloved sugar maple slowly succumbed to disease. Today, it lives on in a new form. Corey Snyder, a wood ...

It's a Treehugger's dream come true. Leafsnap is a free app that identifies plant species of all kinds, from flowers and bark to fruit and trees. Go for a walk, take a shot of a leaf, and this ...

Sweetgum is an iconic native North American tree. Thriving in US hardiness zone 6 to zone 7, sweetgum, Liquidambar Styraciflua, can grow to mighty sizes, often reaching 80 feet plus and living for ...

One of the standout trees for autumn color is the sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua). Its easily recognizable star-like leaves transition from a glossy summer green to bright red, purple ...

Covered in a dense tree canopy, Atlanta proudly wears its “City in a forest” name. Almost 60% of single-family and 40% of multi-family residential properties in the city are tree-covered. Tree heaven ...

One way to tackle the unequal distribution of trees across Los Angeles is to plant more of them in places lacking a robust canopy, like East and South L.A. But a new study helmed by USC and the ...

The spectacle is not as impressive a few degrees farther north, where deciduous trees give way to conifers, which keep their dark green needles through the winter. These contrasting landscapes are ...

From soaring coastal redwoods to dinosaur-era Wollemi pines and firs that make the perfect Christmas trees, even our most revered woody plants are in an awful lot of trouble. But it turns out that ...

The Parks Department is releasing a list of “great trees” for the first time since 1985. The commissioner loves a willow in Brooklyn. By James Barron Good morning. It’s Tuesday. Today we ...

We must be satisfied a person with appropriate knowledge and expertise has identified the tree needs to be removed or pruned without our permission. It is important to read the tree pruning guidelines ...

A deciduous tree with a branching pyramidal habit, growing to about 15m. Deeply divided, maple-like, pale green leaves are striped and mottled yellow, flushed pink when young, turning to shades of ...