<body><div>FARGO -- The fall colors are starting, and that makes trees top of mind for many of us. And just in time for the season's start and the return of students, staff and faculty to campus, NDSU is launching a new program 15 years in the making that could change how you view the landscape, permanently. It's the new "Interactive Arboretum" on campus.NDSU, with the oldest tree campus in the state, has a tremendous amount of tree diversity.That's in part because they developed some of the varieties themselves, tailor-made to withstand our harsh winters and hot summers. About fifty special campus trees are labeled with their own QR codes. A scan of the codes takes you to a site that identifies the trees, teaches you their special features, and even lets you test your own tree knowledge with a quiz. Among the more unusual tree denizens of NDSU is a full-size, mature gingko tree, a "living fossil" that's about 270 million years old, and which, although it appears to have leaves, is actually a member of the conifer family. Gingkos struggle in North Dakota, and not even the NDSU scientists can quite explain its survival. Todd West, an NDSU professor who developed the program, and Rebecca Heide, who put the finishing touches on it and who's teaching landscape architecture there, joined the Morning Show to introduce us to the tree treasure hidden in plain sight on NDSU's campus. For more information, check out NDSU's website. </div></body>

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FARGO -- The fall colors are starting, and that makes trees top of mind for many of us. And just in time for the season's start and the return of students, staff and faculty to campus, NDSU is launching a new program 15 years in the making that could change how you view the landscape, permanently.

NDSU's New Interactive Arboretum

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FARGO -- The fall colors are starting, and that makes trees top of mind for many of us. And just in time for the season's start and the return of students,

NDSU's New Interactive Arboretum

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