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 ...

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 ...

The monkey puzzle tree has thick branches covered with sharp, triangular leaves. The leaves overlap like tiles and give the tree an armoured appearance. Even the trunk and older branches may remain ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. -Credit:Barry West A special commemorative 'monkey puzzle' tree has been planted at the historic Cornish estate where the prickly ...

Some trees are remarkable simply because of how long they have been standing. The monkey puzzle tree, known scientifically as Araucaria araucana, belongs to a lineage so ancient that its ancestors ...

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.

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 ...