Southern Oregon artist Richard Reames works in an unusual medium: trees. He creates arborsculptures — bending, grafting and pruning trees to form creative shapes, patterns and objects. His artistic ...

Please help me with my 4-year-old’s question. Why are tree trunks round and not square or rectangular or any other shape? You seem to have a very precocious child. Or maybe annoying. I guess that’s ...

What shape is a tree? For most people, it’s like a lollipop or a feather duster: a single trunk topped by a green bunch of branches and leaves. “Not all trees are like that,” said Sharon Yiesla, plant ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Leaf shapes play an important role in tree identification, providing key ...