Even the productive orchard has a tropical feel. Hazel started with two candlenut trees, which are now enormous; she uses the nuts for cooking. There is also a longan, a lychee, mangoes ...

Do you want to plant fruits in your home garden but are resistant because of the unbearable heat of the summer? Don’t worry.

Puerto Rico will suit you just fine. The cocktail was born on the island in 1954, though debate lingers over exactly where it ...

Hawaii, an archipelago in the tropics, sits 3,200 kilometres (2,000 miles) into the Pacific Ocean from the Americas.

Lightning strikes may kill hundreds of millions of trees every year, but one tropical tree has evolved to benefit from the ...

The tonka bean tree, scientifically known as Dipteryx oleifera, has developed the ability to not only survive strikes but also to transfer the electricity from lightning to its “enemies” and the ...

Though being struck by lightning is usually bad, the tropical tree Dipteryx oleifera benefits. A strike kills other nearby trees and parasitic vines.

Almendro’ (Dipteryx oleifera), a tropical tree native to Panama’s rainforests, has stunned scientists with its surprising reaction to lightning: it thrives. While most trees might wither or ...

If your soil is more sandy than clay, there's a pretty little fruit tree you may want to plant that produces a tasty harvest ...

The large leaves of the aguaje, a tropical palm tree that grows in the peatlands and other seasonal wetland areas in tropical ...

Banyans usually grow on hardwood hammocks. They are considered a keystone species, essential to the hardwood tropical ...