The center of a tree or shrub stem (from roots to trunk, branches, and twigs) is woody, composed of xylem cells that conduct water from the roots to the upper parts of the tree. That woody section is ...

Semper Virens. Heartwood. A knotty growth of bark, the burls are filled with unspotted bud tissue—should a redwood tree fall, a burl can sprout a new tree. The burls, which fetch thousands of ...

Today, there are 11 dawn redwoods on the Michigan Big Tree Register, a program of the Michigan Botanical Society. The ...

Idina Menzel is no stranger to flying high above Broadway stages, and she made her soaring return (literally) Thursday night ...

The name “redwood” comes from their reddish-brown bark and heartwood. “By whatever name, these magnificent trees have the uncanny ability to inspire mystery and awe,” the NPS said.

You’ll see the whole story coming from the first minute you enter the forest in this new musical by Tina Landau and Kate Diaz ...

"Wicked" star Idina Menzel is riveting in her long-awaited Broadway return, but she can't fix the root of the show's problem.

Is the Redwood team convinced that a Broadway audience won’t follow her into the woods unless she makes constant references to doing “yoga at my old synagogue,” how “if I even think about grass, I get ...