In the Indian Ocean, the Yemeni island of Socotra is one of the most biodiverse places on Earth. More than a third of the plant species on the island don’t exist anywhere else on the planet. That ...

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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 its ...

SOCOTRA, Yemen -- On a windswept plateau high above the Arabian Sea, Sena Keybani cradles a sapling that barely reaches her ankle. The young plant, protected by a makeshift fence of wood and wire, is ...

This may sound like something straight out of a horror movie, but it isn’t fiction—it's a real tree called the Dragon Blood Tree (Dracaena cinnabari). Native to the island of Socotra in Yemen, this ...

It’s mystical, medicinal and beloved — and likely the only one of its kind in South Florida. The end is seemingly near for a venerable dragon blood tree in downtown Fort Lauderdale, across from city ...

The Dragon Blood Tree, native to the remote Socotra Island in Yemen, is one of the rarest and most unique trees on Earth. With its striking umbrella-shaped canopy and deep red sap known as "dragon’s ...