A tea made form the bark of choke-cherries is anti-darrheic. The name literally refers to "choking" or "plugging" people up when they have diarrhea. Chokecherry berries are used ceremonially during ...

I was up in the White Mountains this weekend, walking out to my car in the AMC’s Highland Center parking lot after a hike, ...

The Wollemi Pine’s bark looks like bubbling chocolate—but its real secret? It’s a 200-million-year-old survivor from the age ...

the stuff that covers branches and tree trunks, otherwise known as bark, may take the biggest bite out of our botanical observations. Crape myrtle is probably the most popular flowering tree in ...

One way trees endure winter is through adaptations in their bark. With the deciduous leaves long gone, the winter forest has been laid bare, giving us the perfect conditions to attune ourselves to the ...

The Arjun tree can promote heart health. Traditionally, its bark has been used to manage various cardiovascular conditions. Research suggests that Terminalia Arjuna helps strengthen cardiac ...