Christina Harrison

Christina Harrison

Live Science Contributor

Christina Harrison worked at Kew for over 20 years and was the editor of Kew magazine until 2020. She is the author of Kew’s Big Trees and Treasured Trees.

Latest articles by Christina Harrison

composite image showing the manchineel tree, the woolemi pine and the coco de mer.

3 remarkable trees: A living fossil, a deadly canopy, and the world's biggest seeds that were once mounted in gold by royals

By Christina Harrison, Tony Kirkham published

"Sailors believed they grew underwater at the bottom of the Indian Ocean, and it was thought that male trees uprooted themselves on stormy nights and walked to find female trees, embracing them to pollinate their large flowers."

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