The avocado survived a series of ecological and cultural close calls that could have easily relegated it to extinction ...

Located deep within Texas Hill Country River Region is The Laurel Tree restaurant, where chef and owner Laurel Waters serves upscale French-inspired cuisine within an impressive 450-year-old oak tree.

Bay laurel trees struggle when temperatures are very hot and there is very low humidity. Particularly if it is windy. They are treated like desert trees, but they are not.

This disease infects trees in the laurel family (Lauraceae). This non-native pest was first discovered in Georgia in 2002 and then in 2005, it made its way to Duval County Florida.

For years, a sleeper cell in our native bay laurel trees, a pathogen named Botryosphaeria, has been lying low, waiting to attack when the tree’s defenses are down. That time is now.

Worshippers of the god Apollo held the laurel tree to be sacred, as the location of the god’s oracular statements. In some traditions, the Pythia – the priestess who pronounced oracles at Delphi, one ...