Thousands of native trees have been planted to create a new rainforest - in Devon. So far, 2,500 native trees have been ...

I'm at Shurland James Hummingbird Nature Park, a bird sanctuary with an alfresco café located near the entrance to Main Ridge Forest Reserve, the world's oldest protected tropical rainforest.

Most of our knowledge about how plants function has been focused on leaves or stems, however, we do not know that much about the functional traits of roots. Fine roots (the thin roots at the end ...

Scientists just found evidence that Antarctica was a rainforest when dinosaurs roamed the earth. Some 90 million years ago, ...

The following adaptations allow plants to survive in the conditions of the rainforest. Lianas - these are woody vines that have roots in the ground but climb up the trees to reach the sunlight.

The majestic kapok tree in the Amazon rainforest forms a gigantic habitat. Its canopy of leaves, almost 50 meters high, towers over the crowns of the forest. The tree shapes the myths of the ...

At around 30-40m, the emergent layer is made up of one or two of the tallest trees in the rainforest. Down near the ground they have wide buttress roots, providing a stable support for the trees.