Existing algorithms can partially reconstruct the shape of a single tree from a clean point-cloud dataset acquired by laser-scanning technologies. Doing the same with forest data has proven far more ...

A single wild tree on a New Zealand island could soon get some neighbors—and that’s a good thing. These glossy green leaves can be found on hundreds of cultivated kaikōmako on the New Zealand mainland ...

Grown from hundreds of seeds that went to the moon on Apollo 14, the arboreal oddities were almost lost to history. A moon tree stands tall, illuminated from behind by artificial lights, at NASA's ...

Back in 1964, a scientific decision ended up destroying one of the oldest living organisms ever discovered. Prometheus, a Great Basin bristlecone pine growing high on the slopes of Wheeler Peak in ...