Beneath the bogs of New Zealand’s Northland is a massive Ngāwhā kauri, living from 41,000 to 42,500 years ago, which gives an isolated, unbroken record of a period when Earth’s magnetic field declined ...

Kauri trees can grow as high as 165 feet, Live Science reports. Leuzinger, along with Bader, looked at the flow of nutrients of the stump and its neighbors and found that they drank water at ...

King says he has had some luck spraying infected kauri leaves with phosphoric acid, which seems to delay the growth of the fungus, and suggests spraying New Zealand's trees from airplanes.

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.

Swamp kauri fall into two age clusters: “young” trees that died anywhere between a few thousand and around 13,000 years ago, and “ancient” ones that were alive more than 25,000 years ago.

Foresters have long marveled at so-called living stumps, tree remnants that manage to stay hydrated and nourished despite losing their leaves, branches, and trunks.

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 ...

image: This image shows the Kauri tree stump in the study. view more . ... Leuzinger says, is that the root grafts formed before one of the trees lost its leaves and became a stump.

The kauri tree stump (left) and a living tree belonging to the same species (right). Image: (Sebastian Leuzinger) A tree stump in New Zealand is very much alive, thanks to an interconnected root ...

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, or the “Lord of the ...

A tree stump that should have died is being kept alive by neighbouring trees that are funnelling water and nutrients to it through an interconnected root system. The finding adds to a growing ...