Dr. Andrew Loyd, a plant pathologist for the F.A. Bartlett Tree Expert Company, described beech leaf disease as a ...

CHERRY CREEK – The American beech trees are on death row in Chautauqua County. A lot of death rows, actually. Their crime? The hostile takeover of a state forest. Starting this fall, beech trees ...

And over time, eventually, the trees oftentimes will die off, but their roots stay alive. And they send up all kinds of roots and stump sprouts, and so the trees continue to live.

A new disease in Newport is killing beech trees. Here's what's being done to combat it. Scott Barrett, Newport Daily News Thu, July 28, 2022 at 9:02 AM UTC 2 min read ...

Beechdrops (Epifagus americana) is a holoparasitic plant that lives off of beech trees. Indeed, the genus name Epifagus literally means “upon beech.” Beechdrops has neither leaves nor chlorophyll; ...

Through luck or (hopefully) genetics, this mighty tree has avoided contracting beech bark disease—a fatal fungal pathogen that has proven deadly to mature beech trees. And it stands just outside a ...