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 ...

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 ...

On a late summer day in 1834, a house party gathered by the rock garden at Pencarrow, the Cornish seat of Sir William Molesworth MP. The guests were there to witness the planting of a young Araucaria ...

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 ...

What: Araucaria araucana is a distinctive South American conifer commonly known as a monkey puzzle tree. It has widely spaced branches that extend horizontally from the trunk and then arch upwards ...

It's known for many things: being the national tree of Chile; living for hundreds of years; sporting branches that look like reptiles. On Orcas, the monkey puzzle tree on North Beach Road is known ...

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 ...

For 150 years, it has stood in splendid serenity on the village green, harming no one and pleasing many. Over the decades, the monkey puzzle tree at West Cross, near Swansea, became a much-loved local ...

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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 ...