Branch out your brain and prove you’re no sap when it comes to tree trivia—from maple leaves to Bodhi vibes.
In Pacific Northwest forests, Western hemlock thrives beneath taller conifers due to exceptional tolerance of what?
Shade
All known Wood's cycads (Encephalartos woodii) are what sex, earning it the “world’s loneliest plant” nickname?
Male
In colonial America through Prohibition, most apples were grown to make which fermented drink that often stood in for unsafe water?
Hard cider
Pando is the nickname of this vast grove in Utah’s Fishlake National Forest that looks like tens of thousands of trees—yet it’s really a single what?
Organism
The American persimmon (Diospyros virginiana) has bark said to resemble the skin of what animal?
Alligator