Leaves – Evergreen needles; ½ -1” in length, flat, and attached directly to the twig via a small peg. Needles are dark green above, with prominent glaucous white stomatal bands beneath. Twigs and Buds ...

University of Alberta research is showing how trees and fungi team up to survive and stay healthy against insect attacks—an alliance that could lead to more resilient forests. Endophytes—tiny ...

Spruce trees retain ancient memories of their environment and communicate with one other in the hours preceding a solar eclipse, a new international study suggests. "We now see the forest not as a ...

A groundbreaking international study has revealed that spruce trees do not merely respond to solar eclipses—they anticipate them. The research, published in the journal Royal Society Open ...

But what's killing those trees is an insect that's the size of a grain of rice. The spruce budworm is eating its way through the balsam fir and spruce that make up much of the Northwoods in what ...

will see a majestic Sitka spruce standing in the middle of the road, overlooking the ocean. Someone placed a love heart in the hole where a branch used to stick out of the Yaquina Bay muscle tree.

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"A lot of conifers are down right now, and evergreen trees mostly because they have a lot more for the wind to push against when we do get a wind event like this," she said. Stone said it's ...