Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. James Randklev / Getty Images Rainbow eucalyptus (Eucalyptus deglupta) has been called one of the most colorful trees in the world ...

Kimberley Mok is a former architect who has been covering architecture and the arts for Treehugger since 2007. Trees are amazing organisms, providing shelter, shade and fruit-- and even communicating ...

At first glance, you might just think someone got a little carried away and painted those tree barks. Reasonable guess, but what if I told you that those colorful streaks formed naturally? And that ...

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Among the world’s most spectacular trees is rainbow eucalyptus (E. deglupta). This evergreen, surprisingly cold-hardy native of Indonesia and the Philippines doesn’t boast notable flowers. But it does ...

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.

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 ...