The last-known first-generation graft taken from the original McIntosh apple tree died this summer, but not before Ontario horticulturalists took a dozen cuttings in hopes of cloning the plant.

Hidden amongst mossy crags on an uninhabited outer-Hebridean island of Scotland ’s west coast, a rare example of a pure European crab apple tree species has been surviving, likely since the end ...

2. Next, place your dice one above another on the tree’s trunk and trace around both. Be sure to leave plenty of space in between them! 3. Using your x-acto knife {or scissors} cut the holes out.

Nabil Ali, the artist-in-residence at Cambridge University 's Botanic Garden, has made ink from a clone of Newton's apple tree, which fell during Storm Eunice last year.