Just to be clear, an albino redwood lacks chlorophyll, the stuff that normally turns plants green. Some are known as basal, meaning they grow from the bottom of other “parent” redwood trees ...

Albino redwoods were first documented in 1866. Later investigation found that the plants, which grow out of healthy redwoods, are white because of a genetic mutation that leaves them without ...

What the visitor has come across is an albino redwood tree, one of only about 400 known to exist. The strange tree is unable to produce chlorophyll, and so its needles are white instead of green.

An extremely rare, albino hermaphroditic redwood tree was in danger of being sent to the chipper because it was growing too close to the path of a new railroad line in Cotati, Calif. But thanks to ...

MONTAGNE: But hey, the albino trees' reputation for sponging off the redwoods may be undeserved. Zane Moore, a researcher at the University of California Davis, analyzed some of the needles from ...

It's the redwood tree that cannot speak for itself, that on Wednesday got a bit of a hearing. "When you build a train you're gonna have to take out trees," said SMART Board Director Shirlee Zane.

SHAPIRO: Explain how rare a tree like this is. MOORE: OK, well, the tree like this - a chimera - is extremely rare. We know of only about 10 chimeras in the redwood species.