The range of where these trees can grow is steadily expanding as temperatures rise worldwide, and owing to their wide-spreading root system, breadfruit trees are virtually indestructible.

Teams rushed to flood its roots with water, hoping to save a magnificent tree ... grow to 60 feet (18 meters) tall, with large dark green leaves, and each can bear hundreds of pounds of breadfruit.

The Maui News / MATTHEW THAYER photo PUUNENE — Mahi Pono this week unveiled a farm plan that will plant more than 700,000 ... coffee and breadfruit trees by the end of the calendar year.

Fay and Holm started their walk at the southern end of the forest, where the trees grow in scattered holdings ... better-built logging roads and mandated buffer zones along streams (where some ...

In times past, if you understood these axes, you could calculate when to plant crops ... took coconuts from a tree that wasn’t yours. You wouldn’t even take dead breadfruit leaves to light ...

In reality, the root system of a tree looks more like the base of a wine glass with roots growing horizontally coming off of a root flare. There are always exceptions but, in most trees ...

To ensure a productive tree, nurseries attach part of one tree to another recommended for growing fruit. This is called grafting, allowing you to benefit from the healthy rootstock of one tree and ...

Adult Queensland longhorned beetles are attracted to house lights at night. They can be identified by the size — up to 4 inches — and spine-like bumps on either side of their head. -- Hawaii ...

The term espalier refers to the way fruit trees are trained to grow against a wall. It makes the tree easier to prune and the fruit easier to pick. This decorative method was often used ...

Wounding of trees during the growing season results in the formation of callus tissue which develops over the wound surface or parts of it. This callus tissue is an unorganized group of important ...

Kapu is part of a growing group of Native Hawaiian leaders ... taro patches thrived and native fish swam freely. Overhead, ...