How the Monkey Puzzle Tree found its way to Elizabeth Park was, well, a puzzle. “It’s been in our greenhouse for 30 years; we have no idea when it came here. Nobody has any history,&#82… ...

Monkey-Puzzle Tree is a wild, "scary" evergreen with open splaying and spiraling branches. The tree can grow to 70 feet tall and 30 feet wide and forms a loose, see-through, pyramidal shape with a ...

The monkey puzzle tree is part of Orcas brothers Jim and Fred Nicol 's family history. Their dad, Dave, was born on Orcas in 1894. He built the family's first house where Bilbo's Restaurant is now.

There’s even a Connecticut champion monkey puzzle tree — a real one — that resides in Groton. Anyway, Kaputo said he became suspicious after reading the article and examining the photos.

I saw my first Monkey Puzzle Tree at the Kew Gardens in England in 1999. It made a lasting impression on me because it was so unusual like a cactus with branches sticking out from a pole.

The Mapuche lifestyle is interwoven with the monkey puzzle tree. However, it was a bond that was almost broken during colonial times and up to the 1990s, when industrial loggers stripped the land ...

CNN By Katie Hunt, CNN The ancient monkey puzzle tree has distinctive spiny leaves and intricate scaly branches. Its unusual features, scientists believe, evolved as a defense against towering ...