Just as every human being is a multifaceted creation of immense — if not yet fully developed — potential, so it is with plants. Take Chinese tallow tree, for example. In 1772, Benjamin Franklin sent ...

A 10-acre plot on Tybee Island has no owner, leaving the city and residents to manage the space and its future.

The Chinese tallow tree has been turning Gulf Coast grasslands into single-species forests, and Rice University ecologist Evan Siemann hopes to find out how this tree has been able to "break all the ...

Question: Dear Mr. Smarty Plants, This fall I have been seeing a tree with beautiful red leaves all over Austin and someone told me it is a Chinese tallow tree. Can you tell me where I might buy one ...