It is quick-growing and easily spread by wind, water, and birds. It is difficult to clear out easily – it grows back on its ...

Just as every human being is a multifaceted creation of immense — if not yet fully developed — potential, so it is with plants. Take Chinese tallow tree, for example. In 1772, Benjamin Franklin sent ...

The Chinese tallow tree has been turning Gulf Coast grasslands into single-species forests, and Rice University ecologist Evan Siemann hopes to find out how this tree has been able to "break all the ...

Question: Dear Mr. Smarty Plants, This fall I have been seeing a tree with beautiful red leaves all over Austin and someone told me it is a Chinese tallow tree. Can you tell me where I might buy one ...

Chinese tallow is is a prolific invader and destroys wildlife habitat and grazing land. A fast-growing weedy tree with milky sap, it reaches a height of 30 feet. Also called chicken tree and popcorn ...