The majority of plants that qualify as horticultural oddities are modest in size: many can dwell happily on windowsills. Among notable exceptions is monkey puzzle tree, aka devil’s tree. Up to 80 feet ...

The monkey puzzle tree is an evergreen Medusa. It's such a monumental maze that, legend has it, someone once said that even a monkey could get lost climbing it. The name stuck. We'll leave it to ...

Some trees are good for tree-houses. Some trees are not. Guess which category this one fits into? It’s a conifer, and like all conifers will produce no flowers ...

The ancient monkey puzzle tree has distinctive spiny leaves and intricate scaly branches. Its unusual features, scientists believe, evolved as a defense against towering, long-necked dinosaurs.

To borrow, perhaps dubiously, from Shakespeare, what’s in a name? After all, a rose by any other name would smell as sweet and, maybe, a monkey puzzle tree by another moniker would still be as ...

It's known for many things: being the national tree of Chile; living for hundreds of years; sporting branches that look like reptiles. On Orcas, the monkey puzzle tree on North Beach Road is known ...

This monkey puzzle tree (Araucaria araucaria) is one of the stranger trees growing in the Smithsonian’s Enid A. Haupt Garden in Washington, D.C. Its triangular leaves, which cover the entire tree, ...

Q. I have been trying to locate a monkey puzzle tree. No local nurseries carry it. Do you have any sources? — Elsa Sheldon, Boca Raton A. The monkey puzzle tree will not grow here. Related to the ...

Araucaria araucana (Monkey Puzzle), a southern South American tree species of exceptional cultural and economic importance, is of conservation concern owing to extensive historical clearance and ...

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The new docuseries “Patagonia: Life on the Edge of the World” explores one of the wildest places on Earth. The six-part series is available on CNNgo. You can also access CNNgo via our CNN app. The ...