Most native trees of the Northcentral Texas and Southwestern Oklahoma area shed their leaves during fall and winter but there are exceptions. Some local evergreens belong to an ancient plant group ...

Gymnosperm means “naked seed” and comes from the same Greek root as gymnastics, which means to exercise naked. This group of plants is so named because the seeds are not enclosed inside an ovary, ...

In gymnosperm trees, which are usually softwoods like pine or cedar, the microfibrils measure 29 nanometers on average. In the case of the tulip tree though, the microfibril diameters came in around ...

Who knew that the trees were at war? (At least, that’s the first image that came to mind when I read that the Gymnosperm Database is “the web’s premier source ...