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Rainbow eucalyptus (Eucalyptus deglupta) has been called one of the most colorful trees in the world, with cinnamon bark that peels away to reveal a spectrum of green, blue, orange, gray, red, and ...

The natural world is full of multi-colored wonders: vibrant flowers, birds with dazzling feathers and animals covered in every possible hue. When it comes to trees, we don’t typically associate them ...

We believe the more color, the better. Period. This applies to sunsets, towns and even the bagels we eat. So it's no surprise that when we learned there's a tree named after a rainbow, we had to learn ...

Bark from a rainbow eucalyptus, by Christopher Martin. Older bark layers in shades of pastel purple, rusty red, and burnt orange peel away to reveal younger layers in chartreuse and dark green hues.

Small is beautiful, but giants are far more awe-inspiring. That I found out during a trip to northern Thailand recently. At the Royal Project’s Doi Pui Agricultural Research Station in Chiang Mai, I ...