A species of old-growth tree that is totally new to science has been hiding out in a narrow slice of mountain rainforest in ...

Before a discovery in a Panamanian rainforest, “it seemed impossible that lightning could be a good thing for the trees,” a ...

A team of botanists with members from Muse–Museo delle Scienze, Udzungwa Corridor LTD, Via Grazia Deledda and the National ...

Volunteers have planted 450 saplings from Wistman’s Wood, an ancient oak woodland covering seven acres in the Dart Valley, on ...

These are the first trees planted since the Duchy of Cornwall announced plans to double the size of the Wood in July 2023.

Scientists discover Tessmannia princeps, a new tree species in Tanzania’s rainforest, possibly over 3,000 years old and ...

Botanist Andrea Bianchi and local plant experts Aloyce Mwakisoma and his brother Ruben were exploring two tiny village forest ...

The team named it Tessmannia princeps. In addition to its massive girth, the tree grows a little taller than others around it in the rainforest, which is why the team gave it the name "princeps ...

Being struck by lightning is something humans generally try to avoid. But for at least one tropical tree species, this ...

For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers ...

A group of botanists has discovered a new species of rainforest tree in Tanzania’s Udzungwa Mountains. A total of around 100 mature trees were found growing in two village land forest reserves ...

The new species was discovered in the rainforests of the Udzungwa Mountains during field surveys and has been named ...