If your soil is more sandy than clay, there's a pretty little fruit tree you may want to plant that produces a tasty harvest ...

One species of tropical tree seems not only to survive lightning strikes but also to thrive because of them Being struck by ...

Though being struck by lightning is usually bad, the tropical tree Dipteryx oleifera benefits. A strike kills other nearby trees and parasitic vines.

Palm Sunday is April 13 and palms have long been a symbol of sunny California. There are many different types of palms around ...

The ice storm and long periods of freezing temperatures in January made this a hard winter for some of the tropical plants in ...

The Tonka bean tree conducts electricity so well that lightning just flows through it, leaving the tree unharmed. But the parasitic vines on it die.

Most houseplants are tropical plants that require the warm ... They’ll also likely grow with reckless abandon. This June 2020, image provided by Stacy Meli shows Ficus elastica, Strelitzia ...

Most houseplants are tropical plants that require the warm ... They’ll also likely grow with reckless abandon. All this added vigor means they’ll require the nutrients of a growing teenager.