Use leaves, bark, and habitat to identify a cottonwood tree, and learn more about cottonwood's characteristics and locations.

Oh, deer, something is shredding lilac tree’s bark Originally published January 26, 2005 at 12:00 am Q: I have two lilac trees, 8 feet apart, probably about 10 years old, and each has multiple ...

Fire generally kills eastern cottonwood. Mature trees with thick bark may be only scarred or top-killed. Fire scars may facilitate the onset of heartwood decay. Identify the North American Poplars.

If you've been walking outside recently (when it wasn't raining), you know it is "cottonwood-time." Plenty of little puffs are floating through the air and seem to be piling up everywhere.

A: When we see something weird growing on tree bark, it is usually algae, lichens, moss or fungi (or a combination of these). These can be gray, white, green or even orange.

About 348,000 acres of trees last year showed signs of bark beetle damage, according to the survey. That’s slightly up from 2022’s 346,000 acres . One worrisome data point is the increased ...

The bark of some trees even has a scent in winter. Sassafras trees smell very spicy and black cherry trees have a bitter almond scent. Next, look at the tree’s buds.

In our drought, cottonwood seeds are highly flammable. According to the Times Union , in Schenectady, New York, on June 2, 2023, a cigarette set fire to cottonwood seeds and the fire department ...

Artist Madeleine Murray makes relief prints of the bark of a large eastern cottonwood tree in her yard in Burlington on June 14. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger.