Gymnosperm means “naked seed” and comes from the same Greek root as gymnastics, which means to exercise naked. This group of plants is so named because the seeds are not enclosed inside an ovary, ...

Most native trees of the Northcentral Texas and Southwestern Oklahoma area shed their leaves during fall and winter but there are exceptions. Some local evergreens belong to an ancient plant group ...

Trees are typically organized into two categories: hardwoods (angiosperms) and softwoods (gymnosperms). A new study suggests that there is a third type of wood—known as “midwood”—that could explain ...