The shaggy vine on the left is wild grape. In the center, wisteria vines twist around one another, while on the right, poison ivy clings to a tree using its adventitious roots.

Vines also damage trees in indirect ways. When they cover the trunk or branches, the tree bark remains moist for long periods, and the prolonged moisture makes the bark more vulnerable to rodent ...

However, vines that twine too far can be bad news for the tree, according to Sharon Yiesla, plant knowledge specialist at The Morton Arboretum in Lisle. “A few vine stems on a tree’s trunk are ...

There's a tree maintenance project that's important and often overlooked. All the ivy and other vines should be taken out of the tops of your trees, off the trunks and away from the bases of trees.

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Vines Choking Out Trees in the Tropics It's a rivalry as old as forests themselves: the ancient battle between trees and their competitors, the vines. But now, ecologists say, the vines are winning.

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Vines may be proliferating at the expense of trees in tropical forests across the Americas, scientists have found. This shift in abundance could affect the water in the ecosystem and how carbon is ...

Tropical rain forests in the American Hemisphere and other regions of the world are changing rapidly. Studies conducted over recent decades indicate that increasingly, most of the trees in South ...