Monocotyledons, palm trees: 1) Moriche palm (Mauritia flexuosa, or Mauritia vinifera); 2) Rattan (Calamus rotang); 3) Fruits of the Dragon blood tree (Dracaena cinnabari, or Calamus draco); 4) Fruit ...

Invasive goats endanger young trees But storms aren’t the only threat. Unlike pine or oak trees, which grow 60 to 90 centimeters (25 to 35 inches) per year, dragon’s blood trees creep along at ...

Toppled dragon's blood trees are strewn on the ground. In 2015, a devastating one-two punch of cyclones – unprecedented in their intensity – tore across the island.

Climate Yemen Dragons Blood Trees (A dragon blood's tree sits above a canyon on the Yemeni island of Socotra on Sept. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag)) ...

Two hundred miles off the coast of Yemen is Socotra, a remote island known as the jewel of the Arabia, where a species of otherworldly tree known as dragon’s blood has bloomed for millenia. With ...

Between Africa and Arabia lies an island of rare biological oddities—one that’s buffeted now by development, cyclones, and civil war. The Socotra dragon's blood tree, Dracaena cinnabari, can ...

Of course, we rarely think about the plants that face similar struggles, like the dragon's blood trees of Socotra, Yemen. These unusual trees only grow on one small island on Earth. And, thanks to ...