JIM: TROUBLE LURKS IN YARDS ALL OVER CENTRAL FLORIDA. WITHOUT WARNING, YOUR HOME, YOUR CAR, EVEN YOU COULD FALL VICTIM TO A ZOMBIE TREE. MICHELLE: WESH 2’S AMANDA DUKES EXPLAINS WHAT THEY ARE ...

Turns out these trees grow well here, though Central Florida might be their southern limit. They grow rapidly and flaunt white blossoms in mid-spring.

Often called starfruit trees because of the shape of their cut fruit, they grow 25 feet tall and produce two to four crops of fruit a year.

Orange County and several others in Central Florida share the same practice. In Brevard, it's asked that trees over six feet are cut in half. In Osceola County, a program allows people to swap ...

Sixteen years after their legal battle began, about 18,000 homeowners in central Florida will be paid more than $42 million collectively by the state of Florida for destroying their citrus trees ...

For Central Florida citrus growers, the way forward may not be citrus at all After more than a decade of greening disease devastation, Florida’s citrus farmers are considering alternative crops.

These trees have star-shaped leaves that litter branches in the Central Florida area. The leaves turn bright red, purple, yellow or orange in winter. They can grow up to 75 feet tall and 50 feet wide.

FILE - Oranges ripen in a grove in Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013, in Plant City, Fla. Sixteen years after their legal battle began, around 18,000 homeowners in central Florida area will be paid over ...

In Central Florida on Thursday, Lake County had the driest measurement at 559, followed by Volusia at 525, Orange at 505, and Seminole at 504. Osceola measured 433 and has not yet enacted a burn ban.

On the bus, in the trees, on the side and top of railings: Caterpillars have taken over Alachua County. Tussock moth caterpillars are native to Florida and the southeastern United States and feed ...