What: Araucaria araucana is a distinctive South American conifer commonly known as a monkey puzzle tree. It has widely spaced branches that extend horizontally from the trunk and then arch upwards ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Monkey-Puzzle Tree is a wild, "scary" evergreen with open splaying and ...

Q: We live in a condominium where the landscaping is taken care of by a very professional landscaper. Recently a “monkey puzzle tree” was removed from the grounds. Can you tell me what kind of tree ...

To borrow, perhaps dubiously, from Shakespeare, what’s in a name? After all, a rose by any other name would smell as sweet and, maybe, a monkey puzzle tree by another moniker would still be as ...

Should we really be planting Monkey Puzzle Trees at the University? This is the kind of question that I carry with me on my morning walks and sometimes even bring to bed at night. Almost two years ago ...

The ancient monkey puzzle tree has distinctive spiny leaves and intricate scaly branches. Its unusual features, scientists believe, evolved as a defense against towering, long-necked dinosaurs.

As other volunteers watch, top left, Benny Hempstead carefully digs around the roots of the monkey puzzle tree near the airport in North Bend early Saturday morning. Hempstead and Mark Villers, who ...