Just as every human being is a multifaceted creation of immense — if not yet fully developed — potential, so it is with plants. Take Chinese tallow tree, for example. In 1772, Benjamin Franklin sent ...

Question: Dear Mr. Smarty Plants, This fall I have been seeing a tree with beautiful red leaves all over Austin and someone told me it is a Chinese tallow tree. Can you tell me where I might buy one ...

The DNA evidence is in, and Ben Franklin didn’t do it. Genetic tests on more than 1,000 Chinese tallow trees from the United States and China show the famed U.S. statesman did not import the tallow ...

A little known consequence of Hurricane Katrina and its flood waters was that in low-lying areas, where water gathered for longer periods of time, seeds from nonnative trees such as the Chinese tallow ...

The Chinese tallow tree has been turning Gulf Coast grasslands into single-species forests, and Rice University ecologist Evan Siemann hopes to find out how this tree has been able to "break all the ...

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