As Australian cities heat up and dry out, street trees are emerging as frontline defenders of urban livability. Street trees make city life more bearable during heat waves. They also improve human ...

Plants need nitrogen to grow. Many legumes meet this need through a symbiotic relationship: They harbor bacteria that fix atmospheric nitrogen and make it available to the plant. Until now, it was ...

The classic and trusted book “Fifty Common Trees of Indiana” by T.E. Shaw was published in 1956 as a user-friendly guide to local species. Nearly 70 years later, the publication has been updated ...

Foresters Dušan and Eliáš Utínek describe how a rare hermit beetle found a home in a black locust in South Moravia, and urge ...

Q: A couple of doors down from our home there is a large, round-headed shaped tree in the yard that has fairly large clusters of white blooms. Sort of shaped like a cluster of grapes. When we asked ...

Information about the noxious weed, black locust. Black locust is also known by its scientific name, Robinia pseudoacacia. Black locust is known as Robinia pseudoacacia and it is in the pea family.

The coming of autumn often makes trees harder to identify — but sometimes, it does the opposite. The black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) is a case in point. In summer, its bluish-green, oval-shaped, ...

The entrance to Liberty Lake Golf Course soon will look a little barren. Spokane County is moving forward with plans to remove 50 black locust trees along Sprague Avenue that run the length of the ...

As Australian cities heat up and dry out, street trees are emerging as frontline defenders of urban liveability. Street trees make city life more bearable during heatwaves. They also improve human ...