Forget about those luscious fruits now dangling from pear trees. Forget about those pure white blossoms that covered pear trees like clumps of snow back in spring. Look, instead, at the leaves of pear ...

A Palo Alto pear tree on Webster Street has been pared down by a fruit thief — twice. Sharleen Fiddaman lives in an Old Palo Alto home on the 2200 block of Webster Street, where she has maintained an ...

Q: I would like identification of the two leaf samples enclosed. I think the photo showing just a leaf is a sweetbay magnolia. The other I don’t know. It has some sort of fruit on it and a sample is ...