The name comes from the fluffy white cotton-like ... catkins on both male and female trees. The fruits of black cottonwoods are similar to those of the eastern cottonwood except that they have ...

“Meet us at the black cottonwood at Crystal Lake at 11 a.m.” Those were the instructions the Gazette-Times received as we set out to write about which trees were joining the city’s heritage ...

The eastern cottonwood tree, which has heart-shaped leaves that come to a point and can reach more than 100 feet in height, is native to Ohio, Burke said, and while it can grow pretty much ...

Snow in June — it happens every year. This snow, though, is made up of the fluffy cotton-like seeds that float off cottonwood ...

Pat Nabong / Sun-Times Share Chicago has been inundated with white fluffy stuff over the past few weeks. It isn’t snow. The fluff is from female eastern cottonwood trees. The tree’s seeds are ...

When the Kansas legislature selected a state tree it chose the native cottonwood because its presence was synonymous with ...

Master Gardener Ciscoe Morris is answering the questions from the many who noticed the skies filled with “fluffy white cotton ... says Morris. Black Cottonwood trees are native to the area ...

MINNEAPOLIS -- WCCO's report on a White Bear Lake woman's giant cottonwood tree – one of the biggest ... with a 95-inch circumference Black willow (Salix nigra) in Washington County measures ...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) — A cottonwood tree that provided shade for the Ute tribes of western Colorado before the arrival of white settlers has grown rotten and unstable and must be trimmed ...

Black cottonwood trees with holes punched in the leaves. Holes are punched in leaves to collect tissue for the DNA extraction. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy ...