The tonka bean tree, scientifically known as Dipteryx oleifera, has developed the ability to not only survive strikes but ...

Lightning is usually seen as a harbinger of destruction in forests, killing or damaging trees in their blasts. But in the ...

Combined with four decades of tree plot records of the extensively studied ... But strikingly — pun intended — all ten tonka bean trees that were hit by the powerful electric discharges ...

Tonka Bean Trees in Panama Can Survive Lightning Strikes And Then Use that Charge to Take Down ‘Clingy Partners’ All ...

Lightning strikes may kill hundreds of millions of trees every year, but one tropical tree has evolved to benefit from the ...

The Tonka bean tree conducts electricity so well that lightning just flows through it, leaving the tree unharmed. But the parasitic vines on it die.