SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – Many Southerners raised in rural regions of the Deep South have been told that Native Americans once used a special tree to relieve toothache. But there’s more to the ...

Most Friday mornings I sit in my office overseeing the Cooperative Extension Plant Clinic at the New Hanover County Arboretum, answering horticulture questions with a dedicated group of volunteers.

Q: I was on a nature hike in North Texas a week ago and came across this pretty but really odd-looking little tree. What is it, and would it ever work in a home landscape? A: It has several names.

Over the weekend, I planted more trees and shrubs with folks from the city of Norfolk and citizen volunteers. Along with dwarf paw paw (Asimina parviflora) and sand live oak (Quercus geminata), we ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The toothache tree looks similar to ...

Taxonomy: it is a word that suggests a scientific approach to naming organisms and then to classifying them into convenient groups. The ancient Greeks, for a time, thought that all the plants of the ...

An interesting tree of our Rolling Plains region is endemic to Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma and has close relatives occurring as far north in the Great Plains as Minnesota and eastern North Dakota.