I was walking along a creek in Harris County the other day when a greenbrier vine tripped me. To break my fall I grabbed the nearest sapling — which was a mistake. The sapling was a Devil’s walking ...

American Journal of Botany, Vol. 86, No. 12 (Dec., 1999), pp. 1677-1682 (6 pages) During the crown-building phase, the mechanical architecture of the trunk of Aralia spinosa exhibits considerable ...

It’s back-to-school time, and that means school buses on the highways, while we drive to our next field trip destination. The end of summer is a good time to be looking for the season’s “late bloomers ...

I have an interesting small tree on the wooded edge of my landscape. It is about 8 feet tall with fans of 2- to 3-inch oval leaves and has large sprays of small, off-white flowers above each cane. The ...

The few times I have moved to a new home in my life, I have followed the traditional advice not to make major changes in my landscape until a year has passed. In my case, this wasn’t always by design, ...

I was walking along a creek in Harris County the other day when a greenbrier vine tripped me. To break my fall I grabbed the nearest sapling — which was a mistake. The sapling was a Devil’s walking ...

Aralia spinosa is often called devil’s walking stick, taking its name from the thorns all along the branches. L.A. JACKSON I have an interesting small tree on the wooded edge of my landscape. It is ...