From the beech tree's point of view, this is probably a good thing. The beech drop's haustorium, which grows throughout its life, can encase and constrict the roots of its host.

Standing beside it earlier this week, Westermeier looked up at the towering canopy, perhaps 100 feet in the air, and said the tree is healthy and probably 70 years old. Beech trees can live to be 300.

For thriving hostas, consider the growing requirements of companion plants. Avoid those that require plenty of sun, dry soils ...

Beech trees can be found growing alongside neighbors like oaks, hickories, and hemlocks according to Debbie Neese, horticulture expert and customer service manager with Lively Root.

Their 30-year study of the growth patterns of trees in the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada showed that beech trees have been steadily putting their roots down with the help of ...

Halman called beech “a great survivor” because it can reproduce through its roots, by sending sprouts to create new trees. “Even if a tree dies, there’s new trees that are being generated ...

image: Under the microscope, these beech tree roots (Fagus grandifolia) are full of root tips colonized by a couple different types of mycorrhizal fungi. Researchers at the Holden Arboretum ...

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

It is estimated that beech trees were first discovered in Britain shortly after that Ice Age. Neolithic tribes are also believed to have introduced them after planting the trees for their edible nuts.

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 ...

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 ...