B eech leaf disease is spreading in Vermont, threatening the state's beech trees. The disease, first detected in Ohio about a ...

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 ...

Beech leaf disease affects American beech trees, which are native to Michigan. It can also affect European and Asian beech varieties which have been introduced in the state for landscaping.

Michigan is the ninth U.S. state to report beech leaf disease. There's no effective treatment for the disease, which can kill a tree in 6-10 years.

The Maine Forest Service reported the first deaths of beech trees caused by beech leaf disease earlier this month.

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

In just a few decades, the climate in many of the world’s forests will be so changed that many trees will have difficulty surviving. For example, in wide parts of lowland Central Europe, there is a ...

Beech, often used for firewood, is of much less commercial value than some species of birch and maple trees that can be used to make furniture and flooring. "There's no easy answer to this one.

The red fruiting bodies of the fungus can be seen on the bark cankers and will mature in the fall. This pathogen causes significant mortality in American beech trees. Beech-nuts begin to ripen in the ...

But the beech tree has set its plans for revenge in motion, report scientists from the University of Maine and Purdue University in an article published in the Journal of Applied Ecology on Monday ...

News Will beech trees go the way of the ash and the American elm? Holden Arboretum, others hope to prevent decimation of another native tree Updated: Apr. 02, 2022, 5:15 p.m. | Published: Apr. 01 ...