Two of my favorite spring plants, almost entirely based upon their progression from bud to leaf, are beech trees and false hellebore (a common wetland plant). I was thinking about why they are so ...

Jun. 12—Pennsylvania naturalists are keeping an eye on a disease that has been killing beech trees in the eastern U.S. for more than a decade, but has begun spreading more rapidly in the past three ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X A new disease impacting beech trees has spread across the state, and foresters in the Northeast ...

A new study found differences at the cellular level of leaves from infected Beech trees -- variations that may account for tree mortality. Beech trees provide food for animals, timber for wood ...

Look up through the leaves of almost any native hardwood forest in Southern Berkshire County today, and you might notice an unhealthy, strange striping to some beech leaves. Then, on closer ...

Beech trees, one of the most abundant and crucial hardwood trees in New Hampshire, are getting pummeled by beech leaf disease this season. “The trees actually look quite terrible,” said Jeff Garnas, ...

Beech leaf disease is out there once again, decimating beech trees in Massachusetts, as it has in the past. It's a relatively new tree disease, which first appeared in 2012 in Ohio, and has since ...

A new study from Holden Forests & Gardens and a team at USDA Agricultural Research Service confirms that beech leaf disease—a fast-spreading disease already devastating American beech across eastern ...

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Pennsylvania naturalists are keeping an eye on a disease that has been killing beech trees in the eastern U.S. for more than a decade, but has begun spreading more rapidly in the past three years.