Monkey-Puzzle Tree is a wild, "scary" evergreen with open splaying and spiraling branches. The tree can grow to 70 feet tall and 30 feet wide and forms a loose, see-through, pyramidal shape with a ...

You can also access CNNgo via our CNN app. The ancient monkey puzzle tree has distinctive spiny leaves and intricate scaly branches. Its unusual features, scientists believe, evolved as a defense ...

After all, a rose by any other name would smell as sweet and, maybe, a monkey puzzle tree by another moniker would still be as painfully pointy, right? OK, to backtrack, the Courant ran an article ...

It's known for many things: being the national tree of Chile; living for hundreds of years; sporting branches that look like reptiles. On Orcas, the monkey puzzle tree on North Beach Road is known ...

Despite the singular absence of any monkeys for the tree to puzzle in its Chilean homeland, it was not long before “monkey puzzler” and then “monkey puzzle” entered the vernacular and stuck.