How the Monkey Puzzle Tree found its way to Elizabeth Park was, well, a puzzle. “It’s been in our greenhouse for 30 years; we have no idea when it came here. Nobody has any history,” Kathy Kraczkowsky ...
The ancient monkey puzzle tree has distinctive spiny leaves and intricate scaly branches. Its unusual features, scientists believe, evolved as a defense against towering, long-necked dinosaurs.
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How a Monkey Puzzle Tree Became the “Eyes” Bowl

This project celebrates the unusual character of Monkey Puzzle, a wood that reveals swirling patterns and round inclusions as the tools cut into it. Each pass of the lathe uncovers new details, with ...
Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky To borrow, perhaps dubiously, from Shakespeare, what’s in a name? After all, a rose by ...
This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Depending on your point of view, the national tree of Chile has a ...
Some trees are good for tree-houses. Some trees are not. Guess which category this one fits into? It’s a conifer, and like all conifers will produce no flowers ...
The new docuseries “Patagonia: Life on the Edge of the World” explores one of the wildest places on Earth. The six-part series is available on CNNgo. You can also access CNNgo via our CNN app. The ...
This Gardening News column is from the online archives of The Star of North Augusta, a collection of more than 25,000 articles published from October 2007 to February 2022. Last month I wrote about ...