Giant trees in tropical forests, witnesses to centuries of civilization, may be trapped in a dangerous feedback loop according to a new report in Nature Plants from researchers at the Smithsonian ...

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Balsa trees are often used as ornamental plants in landscaping due to their attractive appearance. Passion Flower The passion flower (Passiflora) is a genus of flowering plants, native to tropical ...

In the middle of the South Pacific, a group of Fijian plants have solved a problem that has long puzzled scientists: How can ...

A new study published in Nature Communications has found that 17.31% of tropical tree cover—an area spanning 395.9 million ...

Tropical trees are dying faster than ever, and it's not just heat or drought to blame. Scientists have uncovered a surprising ...

Zapped survivors: Some tropical trees won't be defeated by lightning. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2022 / 08 / 220824120847.htm ...

In trees growing in the tropics, rings can be harder to notice — so much so that ecologists once believed that tropical trees didn’t produce rings at all. Over the past few decades, this line ...

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Lightning strikes kill millions of trees each year — but it turns out that some large tropical trees can not only survive a strike, but also benefit from its effects, according to a recent study ...

On average, about half of trees planted in tropical and sub-tropical forest restoration efforts do not survive more than five years, but there is enormous variation in outcomes, new research has ...