Southern Oregon artist Richard Reames works in an unusual medium: trees. He creates arborsculptures — bending, grafting and pruning trees to form creative shapes, patterns and objects. His artistic ...
The squiggly trunks and branches of Black Locust stand out in the winter landscape. Photos by Katie Finch Leaves are probably the most common feature used to identify trees. But in winter, when so ...
What shape is a tree? For most people, it’s like a lollipop or a feather duster: a single trunk topped by a green bunch of branches and leaves. “Not all trees are like that,” said Sharon Yiesla, plant ...
Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Leaf shapes play an important role in tree identification, providing key ...
A research team has discovered that artificial intelligence can simulate tree growth and shape. The DNA molecule encodes both tree shape and environmental response in one tiny, subcellular package. In ...
Bent Into Shape: The Rules of Tree Form | RealClearScienceThere's a place in West Virginia where trees grow upside-down. Branches sprout from their trunks in the ordinary fashion, but then they do an ...
Cats enrich our lives with their presence—and whether that presence is affectionate or adorably aloof, it's important to remember that all felines need some alone time to rest, groom, and just be. Cat ...
Q: We have a large tree-form lilac that needs to be trimmed back quite significantly. I can’t trim very far before I cut off a lot of leaves. What’s the best way to do this? Should I be concerned that ...
A research team from Purdue University’s Department of Computer Science and Institute for Digital Forestry, with collaborator Sören Pirk at Kiel University in Germany, has discovered that artificial ...