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

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

This is sometimes known as a “nature planting” or a “volunteer” plant. If that beech nut had landed on a manicured lawn instead of bare soil, it would not have had the chance to sprout ...

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 ...

On my first visit to The Great Beech in March 2021, it was already dying. The Great Beech is a spectacular tree — a European Beech that was planted between 1853 and 1863 in Philadelphia. Those who ...

While shallow, surface-visible roots are naturally more common among some tree species (birch, maple, magnolia, and beech being typical examples), aerating the soil to improve drainage and ...

Michigan's defenseless beech trees face invaders First discovered near Cleveland in 2012, beech leaf disease has exploded across the eastern United States. It was first found in Michigan in St ...