The leaves are often fuzzy due to fine hairs and turn red or brown in the fall. Like poison ivy, poison oak produces small, ...

Erin Patterson had an interest in mushrooms, and the lonely outskirts of Gippsland were the perfect place to find an unlikely ...

Q: This oak was planted a few years ago. Initially it was diagnosed with sun scald. Despite measures to try to help it, it just seems to be going downhill. When it budded out this spring there was new ...

Q: I have an 8-year-old oak tree. It looks like it has a girdling root. Should we cut through the root in two places so it can be removed, or should we leave well enough alone. A: Definitely trim ...

How to Identify Poison Sumac Another poisonous plant found in Indiana that doesn't get talked about as much as poison ivy and poison oak is poison sumac. These plants have clusters of seven to ...

This well-rounded oak tree quickly provides a tree canopy for the ultimate natural backyard shade idea for your landscaping. If you want to add value to your yard with a shade tree, combine the ...

Besides its branches, roots, and leaves, a mature tree also grows another important structure—the flower (or cone, in the case of evergreens). Flowers are the reproductive structures from which ...

Oak wilt is often recognized in live oaks by yellow and brown veins showing in the leaves of infected trees, known as veinal necrosis. This time of year, it may be difficult to diagnose oak wilt due ...

Doug Tallamy, the entomologist who co-founded the Homegrown National Park movement to restore natural habitats one yard at a time, has a soft spot for a nearly 25-year old white oak he grew from a ...

Trees in the white oak group have rounded leaf edges and include white oak, swamp white oak, and bur oak. Oak wilt is usually first identified when green leaves turn yellow or brown on the edges ...

Numerous oak species are native to or common in Pennsylvania, where they populate forests, grow as back-yard shade trees, and serve as arguably the best host plant for bird-feeding caterpillars.