* What it is: Elephant ears are hefty tropicals that send up sturdy, fleshy stems with huge leaves hanging at the top. The effect looks like elephant ears hanging on two- to three-foot poles. The ...

Q: Is it common for the chitalpa tree to partially defoliate in the summer? What would be the optimum amount of water for 15-foot chitalpa tree growing in Kingman, Arizona? A: Chitalpa, like some ...

When I was a child in the 1980s, my family traveled nearly every summer from our home in Los Angeles to the other side of the world. We spent monsoon-drenched weeks on my grandparents’ farm in ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Leaves are food factories for the tree. Powered by sunlight, the green ...

Big-leafed mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla) is one of the grandest tree species and certainly the most sought-after wood in the tropical forests of the New World. Through collaboration with Forest ...

For one thing, the roots of his catalpa were ripping up the driveway. Worse, the tall, big-leafed tree blocked a view of the street when he and family members -- including his 76-year-old ...