Gardeners are beginning to think about spring and may have questions. To ask one, simply go to the OSU Extension website, type it in and include the county where you live. A photo is very helpful. Q: ...

Freshman gathered together in Manzanita Lawn as part of a community based learning in partnership with CSUN Sustainability to plant 10 new trees, facing 37 mph winds at 10 a.m. Today was the last UNIV ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Federal officials failed to protect a native San Francisco plant that ...

Student intern Jared Marchese plants a San Francisco manzanita grown from a cutting taken from the last known wild plant of the species. Photo by C. Lagattuta. Chancellor George Blumenthal joined ...

After the chance discovery of a Franciscan manzanita, the rare plant was carefully relocated to a secret location in San Francisco’s Presidio. Can it survive in the wild? One October evening 10 years ...

Mark Frey, an ecologist with the Presidio Trust, helped lead the efforts to transplant the Franciscan manzanita — a plant formerly thought to be extinct in the wild for 70 years — away from a planned ...

How much space does a plant need to grow, if its population recently crashed to a single specimen? In the case of the Franciscan Manzanita, a shrub thought to be extinct in the wild until it was ...

Native to North America, manzanita (Arctostaphylos spp.) comes in many shapes and sizes. It can be a tree, a shrub or a ground cover. A manzanita tree can reach 20 feet in height, while the ground ...

everything had gone in the hastily planned relocation of the Presidio's Franciscan Manzanita — a plant no one had seen in the wild since 1947 until it turned up right in the middle of the planned ...

On Jan. 16, researchers from San Francisco State University and the University of California, Riverside published a paper in the academic journal PhytoKeys about the Arctostaphylos nipumu species of ...

MANZANITA - The city is hosting a dedication ceremony for the new Manzanita water plant 2 p.m. July 12. "The city is very pleased to finally be in compliance with the federal Safe Drinking Water Act, ...