“Immediately the question comes up, why would a tree be alive without any foliage?” To find out, the duo returned and stuck both the stump and the two nearest kauri trees with bunches of ...

It sounds like something straight out of "Stranger Things," but a forest "superorganism" is keeping a nearly-dead tree stump alive. The stump of a kauri tree in New Zealand is still alive thanks ...

A tree stump that should be dead is still alive; here's why Date: July 25, 2019 Source: Cell Press Summary: Within a shrouded New Zealand forest, a tree stump keeps itself alive by holding onto ...

Tree rings are now known to be an excellent ... because the timber is so highly-prized for furniture, arts and crafts. Kauri (Agathis australis) are conifer trees buried in peat bogs across ...

Scientists found a tree stump of the species Agathis australis, known as the kauri tree, that is still growing new tissue despite having no leaves. They discovered that it was actually being helpe ...

By JoAnna Klein In a rain forest near Auckland, New Zealand, a leafless kauri tree stump rises a few feet off the ground. These trees can become giants: The country’s biggest, Tāne Mahuta ...

But logging dating from the 1800s, combined with a new disease that started killing the large trees in the mid-1980s, has decimated the kauri. The tree’s population stands at just 4 percent of ...

Tāne Mahuta, an ancient tree named after the god of forests in Māori mythology, is threatened by the slow creep of an incurable disease. Tourists visiting Tāne Mahuta, the largest known kauri ...

But logging dating from the 1800s, combined with a new disease that started killing the large trees in the mid-1980s, has decimated the kauri. The tree’s population stands at just 4 percent of ...