To borrow, perhaps dubiously, from Shakespeare, what’s in a name? After all, a rose by any other name would smell as sweet and, maybe, a monkey puzzle tree by another moniker would still be as ...

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 ...

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 ...

How the Monkey Puzzle Tree found its way to Elizabeth Park was, well, a puzzle. “It’s been in our greenhouse for 30 years; we have no idea when it came here. Nobody has any history,” Kathy Kraczkowsky ...

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 ...

The ancient monkey puzzle tree has distinctive spiny leaves and intricate scaly branches. Its unusual features, scientists believe, evolved as a defense against towering, long-necked dinosaurs.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is the moment a topless thief was caught on camera stealing a plant from a garden then returning it days later - apologising and saying he was 'f***ing steaming'. The shirtless man was recorded ...

This Gardening News column is from the online archives of The Star of North Augusta, a collection of more than 25,000 articles published from October 2007 to February 2022. Last month I wrote about ...