The tree can be identified by its long, soft, blue-green needles. Eastern white pine is the only white pine in the Eastern U.S. that bears five needles to a bundle. These bundles form clusters ...

the stunning eastern white pine (Pinus strobus) is a fast-growing tree, easily reaching up to 80 feet tall and 40 feet wide.

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Glory of the snow ( Chionodoxa luciliae) is another plant that can survive winter outside. A bulb perennial, it can often ...

In 1964, a graduate student cut down a bristlecone pine in Nevada. The tree, now known as Prometheus, turned out to be nearly ...

the Eastern Cottonwood. This tree stands out for its triangular or delta shaped leaves, often with prominent teeth along the edges, which extend from long flattened leaf stems. This native tree is ...

Like the trees ... pine is but 60 feet tall, and most of its kind are much shorter. Clearly, bigger is not better in such a brutal environment as that found at high altitude in the White Mountains ...

Red Maples account for 10% of the trees, Eastern Redcedar 9%, Norway Maple 9%, Northern Red Oak 7%, Arborvitae 7%, Eastern White Pine 5%, White Oak 4%, Black Cherry 3%, and Pin Oak 3%, while other ...

Sugar maple, American beech, and yellow birch are the predominant tree species. Yellow birch occurs most frequently at the lower limits of this community. Lesser amounts of red spruce, white pine, ...

photosynthesis by planting more trees so that we can reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and slow down ...

White pine trees in New Hampshire have been dropping needles this spring but the state Forest Health Bureau says not to be concerned: It’s the result of last year’s rainy late spring and ...

as is the case with the Methuselah Tree, a bristlecone pine more than 46 centuries old. But it's truly baffling to learn under what conditions it has accomplished this extraordinary feat.