Tag: Tree

ScienceDaily (Apr. 4, 2011) An 18-year study of 27,000 individual trees by National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded scientists finds that tree growth and fecundity--the ability to produce viable seeds--are more sensitive to climate change than previously thought.

The results, published April 5 in the journal Global Change Biology, identify earlier spring warming as one of several factors that affect tree reproduction and growth.

Like a berry on a tree, swinging softly in the breeze. Will the blue jay and the redbird eat my pie before it can be? Dear mulberry tree, I love you, but your wine stain brings me to my knees.

Several years ago, I commuted from Philadelphia to Newark by train.
The train often crawled along at 2 mph or sat motionless. I had ample opportunity to admire the plants tough enough to grow in the blighted landscape alongside the rails. Some plants sprouted through the roofs of abandoned factories.
One particularly attractive plant caught my eye; a small tree with feathery leaves and puffy pink flowers.