The last few times I’ve been to meetings at 401 City Ave. (near St. Asaph’s and Monument roads in Bala Cynwyd) I found myself parking just a little farther away from the building just so I could be ...

In 1823, an acorn from an Overcup Oak tree sent up a shoot at what is now the corner of Elden and Center Streets in the Town of Herndon. In Washington, D.C., James Monroe, the 5th President of the ...

MOUNT VERNON, Ind. (AP) — Wildlife officials are culling beavers and demolishing their dams in a swampland nature preserve in southwestern Indiana to protect a species of oak tree rarely found in the ...

Two arborists’ uncommon hobby takes them deep into the North Carolina woods to look for the state’s leafy giants.

Meet overcup oak, a species found on swampy ground and soils in southwestern Indiana. It is identifiable by its deeply sinused alternately arranged leaves as well as its acorns, which have a cap which ...

This spring, Brett Dupree went to the McDowell Nature Preserve in southwest Charlotte in search of an overcup oak tree, one of Charlotte’s “treasure trees.” “Treasure trees” was a program started in ...

Editor’s note: A version of this story was originally published in December 2020. In the spring of 2020, Brett Dupree went to the McDowell Nature Preserve in southwest Charlotte in search of an ...

Two native Missouri oak trees were planted on state Capitol grounds Monday morning in Jefferson City in honor of the state’s upcoming bicentennial this August. The two trees, an overcup oak and the ...