“Enjoy bed and breakfast at the Upper Pond Tree House! It is a beautiful treehouse in Issaquah, Washington, USA. It was designed for families but is also frequented by groups of friends and couples. It has a table that can seat 6 people and beds that can sleep up to 4 individuals. An outside deck […]
Tijuca Forest
“Tijuca Forest is the World’s Largest Urban Forest! Located in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, it covers an area around 32 square kilometers and was planted by hand to protect the city’s water supply. It exists today because its earlier inhabitants planted hundreds of thousands of seedlings in the 19th and early 20th century. Over the […]
103 year old woman has grown 284 banyan trees!
Smt. Thimmakka from the Indian state of Karnataka is noted for her work in planting and tending to 284 banyan trees along a 4 km or 2.48 mile stretch of highway. She received no formal education and worked as a casual labourer in a nearby quarry. Her husband was a cattle herder. The couple used […]
Sleep in the Trees with this portable suspended Treehouse!
Tentsile is an ingenious portable suspended treehouse that installs much like a hammock while offering the convenience of a multi-person tent. Created by Alex Shirley-Smith, it was conceived as a treehouse that you can take anywhere. Locate any three anchor points and install it above ground. Once in the treehouse, you are separated from wet, […]
Taxol derived from Pacific Yew tree fights Cancer!
Taxol is a drug used to treat ovarian and breast tumors, lung cancer and Kaposi’s sarcoma. It occurs mainly in the bark, needles and heartwood. It blocks cancer cell growth by stopping cell division thereby resulting in cell death. Taxol is the bestselling anti-cancer drug in all of history, with annual sales topping $1.6 billion, […]
Spotted Dear
“Spotted Deer is the most attractive of all the deer species and is found at the Grow-Trees.com project at Sundarbans, West Bengal. Its colouring is most striking, consisting of a reddish brown coat with white spots, a striking white upper throat patch and a black dorsal stripe which also contains white spots in a fairly […]
Strap this spiral staircase onto any tree and enjoy the view!
“Strap this spiral staircase onto any tree and enjoy the view! Builders of treehouses will know that one major consideration during construction is how to support the structure without harming the tree. There are specially developed fasteners and bolts for the task, but there may be ways to hold things up without drilling even a […]
Soncoya
“Soncoya’s fruit juice is given as a remedy for jaundice in Mexico! It is a deciduous tree native of Central and South America and can grow to 10 meters or 32 feet in height. The surface of the fruit has hooklike projections and is hard to cut open when ripe. Its fruit is eaten raw, […]
Slender Loris
“I am a Slender Loris and spend most of my life in trees! I am native to India and Sri Lanka. I live on trees and travel along the top of branches slowly. My huge round eyes give me excellent night vision that enables me to hunt at night. I am nocturnal, feed on plants, […]
Sandbox tree
“Sandbox tree’s fruit explodes sending its seeds over 100 feet! It is an evergreen tree native to North and South America. Its fruits are pumpkin-shaped capsules with 16 carpels arranged radially. Upon ripening, the fruit will explode like a botanical hand-grenade carrying seeds up to 40 meters or 130 feet at 240 kph or 140 […]