Lightning strikes may kill hundreds of millions of trees every year, but one tropical tree has evolved to benefit from the ...

the largest rainforest on Earth. Oh, it's really raining and very warm! Plants grow well here because it's so hot and wet. This tree has its own microhabitat. Microhabitats are very small habitats ...

A team of botanists with members from Muse–Museo delle Scienze, Udzungwa Corridor LTD, Via Grazia Deledda, and the National Museum of Kenya has made an extraordinary discovery in the Udzungwa ...

Before a discovery in a Panamanian rainforest, “it seemed impossible that lightning could be a good thing for the trees,” a scientist said. By Rebecca Dzombak When lightning strikes a tree in ...

Intrigued by their find, they took pictures and collected leaf samples ... Tessmannia princeps (Fabaceae), a new rainforest tree from the Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania, Phytotaxa (2025).

One leaf in the Ecuadorian rainforest where this story was photographed ... A prickly Cladonota biclavata patrols a tree near Ecuador’s Napo River. Found from Mexico to Argentina, some ...

Its centerpiece is an artificial tree - the largest of its kind in the world - that creates a living environment in which the animals and plants can thrive. The indoor rainforest is located at ...