Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Monkey-Puzzle Tree is a wild, "scary" evergreen with open splaying and ...

The monkey puzzle tree is an evergreen Medusa. It's such a monumental maze that, legend has it, someone once said that even a monkey could get lost climbing it. The name stuck. We'll leave it to ...

To borrow, perhaps dubiously, from Shakespeare, what’s in a name? After all, a rose by any other name would smell as sweet and, maybe, a monkey puzzle tree by another moniker would still be as ...

The lone tree with the spindly branches twisting in all directions along North Albina Avenue doesn't look like any of its neighbors. It's also the only tree with a sign slung around its trunk asking ...

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 ...

Truth be told, the tree had stayed long past its welcome. Jody Grage planted the conifer 15 years ago outside her Ballard home, a quirky gift from her teenage son, who promised to take the tree when ...

Truth be told, the tree had stayed long past its welcome. Jody Grage planted the conifer 15 years ago outside her Ballard home, a quirky gift from her teenage son, who promised to take it when he got ...

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