I’ve noticed catkins on my poplar tree for the first time this spring, and my neighbors have catkins on their aspens for the first time. The trees are 10-15 years old. Have they just hit maturity or ...

As the days grow longer and the air warms up, nature is bursting back to life. Even before their leaves return, trees produce delicate, fuzzy structures known as catkins. These tiny, downy threads, ...

Those strange pendulous, squiggly, worm-like structures dangling from branches of many trees drop and cover sidewalks and driveways and generally make a mess especially after a strong wind or rain --- ...

Spring is here and the aspen catkins are obvious on trees in Summit County. Soon the air will be filled with greenish pollen. Later, seeds will fill the air with white tuft-like parachutes looking ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Defining the characteristics of individual leaves is part of tree morphology, ...

Catkins "¦ I'm not sure what they remind me of. Something out of a Stephen King novel perhaps; banana curls; dancing ears of corn. When they move, they resemble the telltales of a sail that indicate ...

Alder trees are not disappointing this year; they are putting on their usual excellent display of catkins. In a simple world, the flowers of all Irish plants fall into two distinct groups: those that ...

Beijing will ban the planting of female poplar trees in the future to prevent the mess of willow and poplar catkins - fuzzy reproductive tufts - that blow throughout the city every spring, creating ...

A viral clip online likely shows the catkins, or flower spikes, of poplar trees covering cars in northern China, not a “rain of worms” as social media posts and some news reports have claimed, experts ...

As you get older, the little things matter more and more. For instance, I have realised that catkins are a really important part of my life - or at least my enjoyment of life. I can't see our ...