Albino redwood trees are truly strange. They sprout white foliage and lack the chlorophyl necessary to photosynthesize. But the Cotati tree is even more rare, since it's only half albino.

A rare chimera coast redwood tree is lifted from its location along the SMART tracks and onto a flatbed truck, along East Cotati Avenue in Cotati on Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014.

An iconic redwood tree struck by lightning Monday night exploded at the Cylburn Arboretum.Baltimore City Department of Recreation and Parks crews were at the site Wednesday to clean up the ...

An iconic redwood tree struck by lightning Monday night exploded at the Cylburn Arboretum in Baltimore. Baltimore City Department of Recreation and Parks crews were at the site Wednesday to clean ...

As a freckly kid with holes in my jeans, I distinctly remember a camping trip to Yosemite National Park in which my dad drove our 1965 Volkswagen bus through a tunnel cut into the trunk of a giant ...

Mystery of California's albino redwood trees may be solved. A researcher may have figured out why albino redwoods turn white in the middle of deep green California redwood forests.