Coimbatore: Not many in down south know that planting of cadamba trees (Neolamarckia cadamba), which thrive in the Western Ghats and even at plantations in Narasipuram here, can be highly profitable ...

Usually pencils are made out of trees. But one Danish start-up has come up with a new idea: growing trees from pencils. And these aren't any old trees - these are the Christmas variety. Sprout ...

Two young entrepreneurs from Tamil Nadu are making pencils eco-friendly. Sneha Bhattacharjee reports. Plantcil uses newspapers and 100 per cent recycled and used papers to make their pencils.

Pencil tree, native to much of southern Africa, is among the most fascinating plants we cultivate here. Often labeled ‘’pencil cactus’’ even though it’s a succulent Euphorbia (E. tirucalli), it ...