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 ...

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.

If the tree is among the largest of its ... They are all cone-bearing conifers. The name “redwood” comes from their reddish-brown bark and heartwood.

There’s little ideal about “Redwood,” a wholly unsurprising new tree-hugging musical (and I mean that literally), written and ...

A new study suggests that a tree-dwelling salamander may be able to control its grip on trees' bark by pumping blood ... high in the crowns of giant coast redwood trees. Not unlike a flying ...

"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 ...