Oak wilt is a fungal disease that can weaken white oaks and kill red oak trees within just a few weeks. The fungus enters the ...

Some lawn maintenance is recommended now that the leaves have fallen.Experts explained why this is the best time of year to ...

an invasive fungus that is threatening Minnesota’s oak tree population. Sometimes characterized by browning or golden leaves at the top of the tree and a dark bluish-gray discoloration in the bark, ...

Conditions are quite different today as I step into the early November woods for a walk. With the leaf drop and the not-yet snow cover, the forest is very open, and I see plenty of things that were ...

If there is one certainty for all humans, it’s that we are drawn to natural elements.

Poisonous mushrooms exist in Florida. Some won’t kill you, but will make you wish you were dead. Others can be fatal, like ...

Various shelf fungi continue to hug trees, but another catches my eye, one often passed by: jelly fungus. Here, on the branches of a downed oak, the brown-black jelly grows. This fungus has been ...

is asking the public to prune their oak trees in the winter to help stop the spread of oak wilt. Oak wilt is caused by the ...

Growing on an oak tree away from the river was a bright red beefsteak mushroom. This is a so called bracket fungus, as it grows on a tree trunk and looks like a bracket or shelf attached to the tree ...