I was walking along a creek in Harris County the other day when a greenbrier vine tripped me. To break my fall I grabbed the nearest sapling — which was a mistake. The sapling was a Devil’s walking ...

Purdue Extension forester Lenny Farlee introduces you to the Devil’s Walking Stick, a small tree from the ginseng family found in southern Indiana. It is identifiable by thorns or spikes along the ...

FIVE YEARS AGO when “Best Plants for Hampton Roads: A Landscape & Garden Companion” was first published by eight area horticulturists, contributor Ed Bradley added his signature to my copy with this ...

American Journal of Botany, Vol. 86, No. 12 (Dec., 1999), pp. 1677-1682 (6 pages) During the crown-building phase, the mechanical architecture of the trunk of Aralia spinosa exhibits considerable ...

Yes. I was a bit careless. And yes, it is painful being poked by the thorns of a devil's walking stick tree. The devil's walking stick is a small tree native to North America. It has a slender, thorny ...

The few times I have moved to a new home in my life, I have followed the traditional advice not to make major changes in my landscape until a year has passed. In my case, this wasn’t always by design, ...

Aralia spinosa is often called devil’s walking stick, taking its name from the thorns all along the branches. L.A. JACKSON I have an interesting small tree on the wooded edge of my landscape. It is ...

I was walking along a creek in Harris County the other day when a greenbrier vine tripped me. To break my fall I grabbed the nearest sapling — which was a mistake. The sapling was a Devil’s walking ...

I have an interesting small tree on the wooded edge of my landscape. It is about 8 feet tall with fans of 2- to 3-inch oval leaves and has large sprays of small, off-white flowers above each cane. The ...