When early gardeners first brought tree of heaven to the United States, the country itself was less than a decade old. In the ...

Plants tend to first focus their energy on establishing ... One tree you don’t want to protect is the tree of heaven, one of Pennsylvania’s most invasive weed trees that also has been found ...

Invasive plants are evil and have features that make it so that if you try to dig them out, you’re actually making it worse.

Scientists are now experimenting with using the fungi to kill tree of heaven, by hacking the trunk and directly injecting the pathogen into the plant. The results of one study, published in ...

Ailanthus altissima, commonly known as the tree of heaven plant, is incredibly fast-growing. It can reach 25 feet in height in the single year and is found throughout Kansas. Luis Fernández ...

Leaves and other plant parts smell like rancid peanut butter. At first glance, the compound leaves (See Figure 1) look somewhat like black walnut, but they typically have more leaflets (11-41) than ...

Because of that line of work, his father dealt constantly with invasive plants like Tree of Heaven. So the young Long already heard about the species' awesome drive to survive. "If you're getting ...

A pretty plant with delicate white flowers that resemble ... According to Kentucky Woodlands magazine, Tree-of-Heaven has gray, smooth bark and can grow to a towering height of 80 feet tall ...