With the help of a new grant, a team of researchers at the University of Minnesota researchers are studying oak wilt, an invasive fungus that is threatening Minnesota’s oak tree population. Sometimes ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Since the 1830's, Cleveland has been known as "The Forest City". Majestic trees line many streets and city parks, but a killer is lurking. It's called oak wilt fungus. It's an ...
Oak wilt is a potentially deadly disease caused by the fungus Bretziella (formerly Ceratocystis) fagacearum. First discovered in the 1940s in the Mississippi River Valley area, the disease is found ...
It’s called watchful waiting. Being prepared. There is a fungal disease — oak wilt — that can quickly kill oak trees, especially red oaks. White oaks, the state tree, seem to survive better. Beetles ...
If you take a close look at some of the more established trees in your landscape, you may notice something you cannot seem to describe – it may look to you like a kind of fungus on your tree trunk. Is ...
Waiting until the leaves drop in fall is a rule of thumb for pruning shade trees, mainly because you can see bare limbs better, and the job is less “messy” without leaves attached to the cut branches.
Q: Can you tell what caused a big patch of bark to fall off the bottom of my oak tree? No marks or tunnels at all; bark looks like it just fell off suddenly. Dan Hunt, email A: My bet would be ...
Q: I have a pine tree on the edge of my lawn that has clusters of mushrooms coming up around the base of the trunk. My friend told me these mushrooms are a sign that the tree has rotting roots and the ...
It’s called watchful waiting. Being prepared. There is a fungal disease — oak wilt — that can quickly kill oak trees, especially red oaks. White oaks, the state tree, seem to survive better. Beetles ...