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 ...

Should we really be planting Monkey Puzzle Trees at the University? This is the kind of question that I carry with me on my morning walks and sometimes even bring to bed at night. Almost two years ago ...

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.

This project celebrates the unusual character of Monkey Puzzle, a wood that reveals swirling patterns and round inclusions as the tools cut into it. Each pass of the lathe uncovers new details, with ...

This monkey puzzle tree (Araucaria araucaria) is one of the stranger trees growing in the Smithsonian’s Enid A. Haupt Garden in Washington, D.C. Its triangular leaves, which cover the entire tree, ...

Permission has been granted to fell a monkey puzzle tree in a conservation area in Hereford's Braemar Gardens. The tree, at 22 Braemar Gardens, has started to lift the surface of the driveway and ...

In the days after Hurricane Irma, I found myself preoccupied with old buildings and trees. After I’d gotten the update on the Edison & Ford Winter Estates, my thoughts turned next to the Koreshan ...

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 ...

After years of drawing and painting, studying drawing and painting, thinking about drawing and painting, and teaching drawing and painting, you’d think I’d have learned a thing or two about perception ...

Equipoise; Fuzzy Hackertat; Fake Blues; Tarka and the Mount; Echo Chamber; Don't Think Too Hard About It; Sighting the Tiger; N.J.B.; Equipoise II "The Monkey Puzzle Tree" is an exciting set of ...