Leila Nilipour One afternoon, during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in Panama, a bored teenager with a slingshot and a clay ball accidentally shot entry and exit holes in a Cecropia tree ...

The red maple is a wide-ranging native tree in the Eastern half of the United States. In Maryland, red maples flower between ...

Cecropia species, particularly Cecropia pachystachya and Cecropia hololeuca, are tropical trees known for their traditional medicinal uses in various cultures, especially in Central and South America.

Norelis Arias walks on land in northern Colombia that’s brimming with greenery, birds chirping in the trees. It’s a far cry ...

One can discern shapes in the forest—sloths clinging to the limbs of cecropia trees, vipers entwined in branches, a tapir wallowing in a distant slough. For a brief moment at twilight the forest ...