Oak tree located by the Smith Fieldhouse. BYU has more than 17,000 trees on campus. (Zoe Cook) With varieties of maples, evergreens, columnar oaks and plum trees, BYU boasts more than 17,000 trees ...

Treehugger/ Alexandra Cristina Nakamura. Besides its branches, roots, and leaves, a mature tree also grows another important structure—the flower (or cone, in the case of evergreens).

“Old Glory,” a roughly 400-year-old Valley Oak tree in Stevenson Ranch, became a Los Angeles County Historic Landmark this week. Why it matters: But it wasn’t always a walk in the park to ...

Estimated to be 13,000 to 18,000 years old, the tree — known as the Jurupa Oak — is older than almost any other plant on Earth. It has survived an ice age and rapid climate warming.

A Casey Trees worker measured the the circumference of the Northampton Oak last summer. Photograph by Evy Mages . That said, the Northampton Oak did have its moment of arboreal glory in 2006 when the ...

The shrub-like oak tree has been a fixture of the landscape since mastodons and saber-toothed cats last roamed Southern California. California city OK's project near world's oldest oak tree - Los ...

News. Historic oak, estimated at least 400 years old, topples with storms Located in Plano’s Bob Woodruff Park, the tree was known as a treasure to the community.

A centuries-old Skipinnish Oak named after a Scottish band has won this year’s Tree of the Year contest. The oak, thought to be at least 400 years old and hidden away in a Sitka spruce ...