Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. Beneath the forest canopy, or overstory, of towering trees is a second layer of vegetation known as the understory. It is composed of shrubs, saplings, ...

Looks Like: Striped maple is a shrubby tree of the forest understory, rarely exceeding 30 feet in height. Young trees have smooth green bark with pronounced vertical white striping. Striping ...

I was up in the mountains this past weekend and got to visit with one of my favorite trees — the striped maple (Acer pensylvanicum). I did some googling and it turns out striped maples are a lot of ...

There’s a new champion in Baltimore. Not a sports team, a tree. Tucked amid a clump of loblolly pines in Druid Hill Park stands Maryland’s largest striped maple. Acer pensylvanicum, as scientists know ...

Biologists report that striped maples not only change their sex periodically, but that they can wait until the last minute - three weeks before flowering - to do it. The switch appears to be triggered ...

Although pollen has covered cars for weeks and allergy sufferers have been sneezing, we think of sex as being the realm of animals. But plant sex can be quite interesting, especially in species that ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract During 1986, the leaf herbivore fauna of Acer pensylvanicum in western Virginia consisted largely of leaf-chewing, generalist Lepidoptera ...

Some maples are to love (sugar maples) and others not (Norway maples, because they're an invasive species). But there's more to maples than those two -- including some you might like or dislike ...

Tonight's FarmVille update will give even the most traditional farmer a cause for celebration. If you're the kind of player that likes to master each and every crop released in the game, make sure to ...