Once upon a time, American chestnuts (Castanea dentata) spread their leafy boughs from Maine to Mississippi, accounting for a quarter of the trees in some forests. More than 100 feet tall and 10 ...

Saturday proved to be notably windy, fiercely gusty. Trees bowed their heads and tossed their leafy boughs in what seemed gestures of helpless surrender to the unexpected sunny-day breeziness.

The photo depicts growers taking a load of leafy boughs to their fields, to be buried in the soil to improve its organic matter and fertility. Those goals should be emulated by Florida gardeners.

Across the Amazon basin, rainforests spread their leafy boughs over millions of kilometers. In the ground far below the treetops are ancient, long-hidden remnants of human habitation. They are ...

The same night my gingko lost its leaves, a record-breaking fall snowstorm caught the rest of New York’s trees by surprise, loading their leafy boughs up with snow. All night, branches came ...

While their proboscis makes accessing higher foods easier, Baird’s tapirs will also sometimes snap small saplings in half so they can devour their leafy boughs. Baird’s tapirs are solitary ...