This Gardening News column is from the online archives of The Star of North Augusta, a collection of more than 25,000 articles published from October 2007 to February 2022. Last month I wrote about ...

The ancient monkey puzzle tree has distinctive spiny leaves and intricate scaly branches. Its unusual features, scientists believe, evolved as a defense against towering, long-necked dinosaurs.

How the Monkey Puzzle Tree found its way to Elizabeth Park was, well, a puzzle. “It’s been in our greenhouse for 30 years; we have no idea when it came here. Nobody has any history,” Kathy Kraczkowsky ...

What: Araucaria araucana is a distinctive South American conifer commonly known as a monkey puzzle tree. It has widely spaced branches that extend horizontally from the trunk and then arch upwards ...

This project celebrates the unusual character of Monkey Puzzle, a wood that reveals swirling patterns and round inclusions as ...

Should we really be planting Monkey Puzzle Trees at the University? This is the kind of question that I carry with me on my morning walks and sometimes even bring to bed at night. Almost two years ago ...

Some trees are good for tree-houses. Some trees are not. Guess which category this one fits into? It’s a conifer, and like all conifers will produce no flowers ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Depending on your point of view, the national tree of Chile has a ...