Have you ever examined timber floorboards and pondered why they look the way they do? Perhaps you admired the super-fine grain, a stunning red hue or a swirling knot, and wondered how it came to be?

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While we were obsessing over the self-obsessive one, people who take a much longer view of things have been debating the question of whether trees talk to one another, experience pain, have sex and ...

Move over Rockefeller Center with its towering Norwegian spruce. One of the most poignant seasonal displays is a humble 18-foot tree hidden in Central Park. Every holiday season for nearly the past 40 ...

Trees in mind: simple questions with complicated answers -- Keeping track -- How trees became -- Wood -- Trees without flowers: the conifers -- Trees with flowers: magnolias and other primitives -- ...