Syzygium is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs in the myrtle family that contains more than 1,500 species. Only 14 of those were previously known to occur on Sulawesi, the world’s eleventh-largest ...

This remarkable image greeted me when I opened my Twitter feed yesterday morning: spacer Researchers gathered nearly 7,000 evolutionary trees from 3,000 studies and fed them into a database. They then ...

Trees in the sweet-gum family Altingiaceae are well-known for their quality timber, use as ornamentals, the source of styrax, and from Chinese medicine. The three previously recognized genera ...

It seemed rather unusual that the largest tree genus, Syzygium, containing over 1500 species, was only represented by about a dozen of records on the biodiversity-rich island of Sulawesi, the latest ...

Botanists discover new species of plants relatively frequently, but describing a new genus may be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. A team led by Carmen Ulloa, associate curator at the Missouri ...

NEW DELHI, Jan. 21 (UPI) --A group of tree frog species scientists thought had gone extinct has turned out to be rather abundant in India and elsewhere in Asia. The golf ball-sized frogs were ...