In this episode of ID That Tree, Purdue Extension forester Lenny Farlee introduces the Balsam Poplar. This species is found in the North Woods of Northern Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan ...

Trees with heart-shaped leaves are lovely, especially these that also boast fall colors, flowers, and weeping habits. Here are 15 to consider.

As we pull on our winter coats to shield our tropical bodies from the cold, there is a creature in our midst that survives Alaska's coldest temperatures bare naked. The red flat bark beetle lives as ...

SOME years ago it was found that the bark of the balsam poplar Populus candicans contains substances with fungistatic activity, and that these substances can be isolated from the bark by extraction ...

Question: What’s the difference between a popple tree and an aspen? I hear the terms used interchangeably. Answer: Popple (or poplar) are common names for aspen trees because their genus is populus, ...