Founding Father Ben Franklin introduced the Chinese tallow tree to this country. But we can't blame him for the exotic's invasion - and destruction - of coastal prairie from Florida to Texas. Science ...

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 ...

GALVESTON, Texas - Conservationists will be going door to door this winter battling to obliterate Chinese tallow and Brazilian pepper trees. They hope the campaign will deliver a knockout punch to ...

Terry Powers, 75, has been a lawyer, a car salesman and a jazz musician. Now, he’s a Buddhist beekeeper. “Better karma,” he said, tending to his hives on a recent sunny morning in Lower Coast Algiers.

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 ...

DEAR NEIL: Last winter’s cold almost killed my Chinese tallow tree. I had a tree service company remove all the dead wood three weeks ago.

The picture entitled “Bright Winter Coat” on the first page of the Osceola Sentinel on Jan. 22, 1995, shows Chinese tallow trees on Oak Street Extension. This is not a native tree and has invaded this ...

Dear Neil: Last winter’s cold almost killed my Chinese tallow tree. I had a tree service company remove all the dead wood three weeks ago. I’ve been removing the suckers from the base of the tree and ...

Founding Father Ben Franklin introduced the Chinese tallow tree to this country. But we can't blame him for the exotic's invasion — and destruction - of coastal prairie from Florida to Texas. Science ...

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 ...