If you are a bumblebee living near the beach and raising this year’s brood you will be glad that the purple trumpets of the tree mallows are ...

Q:Our tree mallow, which we have had for years, is being damaged by something we haven't seen before. From a distance, it looks like rust, but up close it appears to be a psyllid insect or a mite. We ...

The mallow plant family (Malvaceae) is easy to identify. The flowers have five separate petals. The distinguishing characteristic of the flower is the central column of united reproductive parts ...

The birds were ousted from Fidra, in the Firth of Forth, because of an invasive plant grown as a substitute for toilet paper in the 1700s. The tree mallow spread rapidly and blocked the nesting ...

Several species of tree mallow are found growing wild in Malta. They are known as ħobbejż, a word of Arabic origin meaning small loaf. The name was presumably given to it because of the seed pods ...

California native flora isn’t considered the cuddliest group of plants, right? These are tough and scratchy types, like Grandma’s old blankets. Some belong to Spartan-sounding “scrub” communities. If ...

Port Sudan Sudanow--A farmer saw the mallow tree growing wild among the trees of his home farm. The sight of its beautiful leaves and flowers caught his attention, so he searched for it and learned ...