The story of dragon’s blood spans folklore, botany and biochemistry. Here’s how it teaches us how trees respond to injury with blood-red resilience.

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A drooping dragon tree (Dracaena marginata) is your plant's way of saying, something's not right. While this hardy plant can ...

In the Indian Ocean, the Yemeni island of Socotra is one of the most biodiverse places on Earth. More than a third of the plant species on the island don’t exist anywhere else on the planet. That ...

The Dragon Tree of Icod de los Vinos, in Tenerife, is the oldest specimen of Dracaena Drago, which is preserved in the Atlantic archipelago, a tree 16 m high with a 20 m circumference at the base. An ...