A reader asked the following questions about trees. No. 1: When hiking, I often see what appear to be several trees growing from a central trunk. What causes this? No. 2: At a local park an oak tree ...

A reader asked the following questions about trees: (1) When hiking, I often see what appear to be several trees growing from a central trunk. What causes this? (2) At a local park an oak tree and a ...

Far beyond the Christmas tree farms, in forests and ravines, lie the woolly-barked nurse logs. At first glance they are simply fallen trees: the corpses of the woods. But now they live a second, ...

Question: A number of studies have demonstrated that the interaction between nurse plants and their proteges changes from one of facilitation to interference as life history stage progresses. Here, I ...

An evergreen tree twinkling with white lights in downtown Fort Wayne usually attracts a crowd the Sunday before Thanksgiving, but not this year. Visiting Nurse instead continued its annual tradition ...