WITH ITS broad-leaved, evergreen foliage, shiny red bark, pink urn-shaped flowers, festive multicolored fruit of orange and yellow, and crooked maroon trunk, it is arguably the most beautiful tree in ...

With no ideal photo shoot models of my own and an all-but-dead camera, I was elated to find a couple of nifty photos in the North County Times archive to illustrate my story about choosing a native ...

Neal Kramer/Special to the Record Searchlight The bright red or orange fruits of the madrone provide food for many wildlife species, including birds like waxwings and robins and mammals such as bears, ...

Description: There is nothing subtle about this broadleaf evergreen. The madrone is in the same family as rhododendrons, azaleas and manzanitas, and in the wild they often grow slowly to well over 100 ...

The Pacific madrone (or, more euphoniously, madrona) is a frustrating tree. Marvelously adaptable in the wild, native from northern California to British Columbia and inhabiting sites from hot, dry ...