Most of the colorful leaves have fallen off our deciduous trees. But that doesn’t mean the beauty of trees is gone. Now you can explore other interesting and colorful attributes of trees – the bark, ...

Oak trees have been around for more than 50 million years, with individual trees easily living 1,000 years. One of the oldest oak trees in the U.S. is believed to be at least 2,624 years old. The ...

When many of you hear the word, savanna, your mind might start to wander to the continent of Africa and the wildlife there. In actuality savannas have nothing to do with lions, zebra, elephants and ...

Bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa) is a picturesque, majestic shade tree. Its bark is dark-brown with deep, rough grooves. The dark-green leaves are smooth and span 4 to 12 inches long with rounded lobes.

Long branches with notched bark littered the lawn of the Lincoln Park Zoo on Tuesday morning, a yawning sky visible where a thick canopy once stood. For almost three hours, crews from Fernandez Tree ...

Oak bark (Quercus alba) comes from trees of the Fagaceae family, typically white oak varieties native to North America. It’s derived from the inner bark and round growths known as galls that form on ...