Red mulberry trees: A very fast-growing exotic species, red mulberry trees produce its fruit on female trees. They grow to 35 feet tall and with the help of the birds that love its fruit are a ...

Often wrongly assumed to be poisonous, beautyberries have a floral, slightly bitter flavor—and they repel mosquitoes.

Tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera), a cousin of the magnolia, is absolutely stunning in spring when it’s fragrant, ...

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McAllen residents and volunteers held a tree planting ceremony Thursday morning in part of the city’s Urban Forest initiative ...

“Texas is an important state in monarch migration because it is situated between the principal breeding grounds in the north ...

In Hawai‘i, people, pigs, and ecosystems only have so much room to coexist, and the pigs exist a little too much.

Celebrate Texas Native Plant Week in Laredo with free bluebonnet seeds and learn how they benefit the environment.

But COTA is attempting to change that. When Formula 1’s Texas host began planting trees along the track’s twenty corners, the subsequent smattering of a grove looked like a half-hearted ...

The Whitmire administration favors a design that would preserve more of the existing trees on the major thoroughfare ... Before coming to Texas, Rebekah was an investigative journalist at ...

Republican Russell Prescott, who is running for the seat to represent the 1st Congressional District, weighed in on a number of topics recently in a "Conversation with the Candidate" town hall event ...

Native trees also support our native wildlife, which evolved alongside them, so recognize them as food. The same can’t be said for many introduced trees. And the exotic trees that are recognized ...