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

A team of botanists with members from Muse–Museo delle Scienze, Udzungwa Corridor LTD, Via Grazia Deledda, and the National Museum of Kenya has made an extraordinary discovery in the Udzungwa ...

One species of tropical tree seems not only to survive lightning strikes but also to thrive because of them Being struck by ...

Before a discovery in a Panamanian rainforest, “it seemed impossible that lightning could be a good thing for the trees,” a ...

The researchers note that there are many scarce species of plants and animals ... Tessmannia princeps (Fabaceae), a new rainforest tree from the Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania, Phytotaxa (2025).

A tropical tree species in Panama’s lowland rainforest appears to benefit from lightning strikes by surviving unscathed while ...

A group of botanists has discovered a new species of rainforest tree in Tanzania’s Udzungwa Mountains. A total of around 100 mature trees were found growing in two village land forest reserves ...