Looks Like: Striped maple is a shrubby tree of the forest understory, rarely exceeding 30 feet in height. Young trees have smooth green bark with pronounced vertical white striping. Striping ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. Beneath the forest canopy, or overstory, of towering trees is a second layer of vegetation known as the understory. It is composed of shrubs, saplings, ...

Although pollen has covered cars for weeks and allergy sufferers have been sneezing, we think of sex as being the realm of animals. But plant sex can be quite interesting, especially in species that ...

LEIPZIG, Germany, Sept. 12 (UPI) --Trees can tell whether their buds were snapped off by the wind or nipped away by a hungry deer. New research suggests trees can recognize the saliva of roe deer. Roe ...