Just as every human being is a multifaceted creation of immense — if not yet fully developed — potential, so it is with plants. Take Chinese tallow tree, for example. In 1772, Benjamin Franklin sent ...
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The Chinese tallow tree has been turning Gulf Coast grasslands into single-species forests, and Rice University ecologist Evan Siemann hopes to find out how this tree has been able to "break all the ...
The DNA evidence is in, and Ben Franklin didn’t do it. Genetic tests on more than 1,000 Chinese tallow trees from the United States and China show the famed U.S. statesman did not import the tallow ...
Founding Father Ben Franklin introduced the Chinese tallow tree to this country. But we can't blame him for the exotic's invasion - and destruction - of coastal prairie from Florida to Texas. Science ...