An aging katsura tree planted in 1878 at the Arnold Arboretum in Jamaica Plain. (Alexandra Koktsidis/WBUR) A sweet, sugary scent tickles your nose, then disappears.

Sierra Leone has been dealt a “great loss,” the country’s leader said Thursday, after its Cotton Tree, which served as a symbol of national freedom, was brought down.

Jamaica, it is notorious, produces as fine cotton as is grown In any part of the world; we have plenty of spare land, of a fertile description, for its cultivation; and we have, too, plenty of ...

Africa Centuries-old cotton tree, national symbol for decades, felled by storm in Sierra Leone Storm Wednesday evening in the capital, Freetown, destroyed all but the stump of the iconic tree ...

A bulldozer clears the fallen Cotton Tree in downtown Freetown, Sierra Leone, Thursday May 25, 2023. Sierra Leone’s centuries-old iconic Cotton Tree, seen as a symbol of liberty and freedom by ...

Sierra Leon's President Julius Maada Bio says heavy rains felled the centuries-old Cotton Tree that has stood as the country's national symbol for decades.