If you have ever walked through a patch of woodland in Maine and spotted a tall, fast-growing tree with clusters of white, ...

Black locust trees were once hailed as an ecological solution to some of Germany’s most degraded lands and were planted extensively to stabilise the post-mining lands, enrich poor soil and capture ...

The coming of autumn often makes trees harder to identify — but sometimes, it does the opposite. The black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) is a case in point. In summer, its bluish-green, oval-shaped, ...

For Parys, keeping a watchful eye on these small populations now could potentially prevent a much larger ecological problem in the future.

The West African locust looks nothing like what Westerners might consider a vegetable plant to be. It is a tree. A true Jack-and-the-beanstalk kind of crop, it is indeed related to beans, albeit ...