Dawn redwood trees once were believed extinct. The towering trees have been quietly growing in Michigan for decades.

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

Trees with brilliant displays of yellow in the autumn include beech, honeylocust, poplars, birch and ginkgo trees. The red colors in leaves are created by anthocyanin, which is in a class of pigments ...

Autumn olive is a small, woody tree known for invading open prairies, disturbed areas, and woodland edges. It houses nitrogen fixing bacteria on its roots, allowing for rapid growth and colonization, ...

A time capsule to the dinosaur age, dawn redwoods trees are growing in Michigan. You may think of ... a tree that produces cones — with flat needle leaves that turn copper-brown in November ...