Researchers have found almost identical patterns of tree diversity across the world's tropical forests. The study of over one million trees across 1,568 locations found that just 2.2% of tree ...

Palms are among the most common tree species in the Amazon rainforest, but in some tropical areas they are unusual, or conspicuously absent. Before, variation in numbers of palm trees among ...

Mother nature encourages diversity in rainforest trees. Rhett A. Butler, mongabay.com. January 26, 2006. Older forests have a greater diversity of trees than younger forests according to research ...

Other trees common in the rainforest include the towering Brazil nut, which grows up to 160 feet tall, and the Tacuma palm, notable for rings of wicked thorns around its trunk.

While the Amazon may be the most famous rain forest in the world, it still holds many mysteries, including which tree species are the most common, which a new study has now identified.

The Amazon is the largest and most diverse rain forest in the world — about 10 percent of all known species on Earth dwell there — but only a few dozen of the Amazon's thousands of tree ...

Probably the first pioneer plants to arrive in Hawaii were mosses and ferns. Ferns have been around for over 360 million ...

Also called tropical lilac, this cold-hardy, evergreen species (Lonchocarpus violaceus) is native to Trinidad, Venezuela and Colombia. Usually 10 to 20 feet tall, plants occasionally grow to 30 feet.

Newly-planted palm oil trees are seen growing on the site of a destroyed tropical rainforest in Kuala Cenaku, Riau Province, on Sumatra Island, Indonesia, on November 21, 2007.