Commonly known as the Japanese pagoda or Chinese scholar tree, the Sophora japonica/Styphnolobium japonicum has long been considered a symbol of good fortune, joy and well-being, a lucky tree and a ...

The Chinese Fringe tree is a spectacular, small, deciduous tree that adds interest to the landscape. Clusters of showy, lightly fragrant, fringe-like white blooms and gray-brown bark that becomes ...

The Chinese Pistache tree is a handsome ornamental shade tree with reliable autumn color that is suitable for urban and residential landscapes. It is native to China, Taiwan, and the Philippine ...

Just as every human being is a multifaceted creation of immense — if not yet fully developed — potential, so it is with plants. Take Chinese tallow tree, for example. In 1772, Benjamin Franklin sent ...

Leaves – Deciduous, alternate, though almost appears to be opposite from afar, compound with 7-17 green leaflets, leaf shape is lanceolate with an entire margin, greater than 6” long, turns gold and ...

The Chinese tallow tree has been turning Gulf Coast grasslands into single-species forests, and Rice University ecologist Evan Siemann hopes to find out how this tree has been able to "break all the ...

MINGRENSHAN, China — The rain forest is so dense around farmer Xing Chunlan’s ramshackle house that she thought of the trees as no more than weeds. When she found out she could make money selling ...