Gail, who took it upon herself to ensure the tree was listed on the state's Registry of Historic Trees in 2005, died in September. Like any such memorial, several speakers offered a few words, ...

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 ...

With rare exceptions, tree canopies should be allowed to grow to their full size and natural shape. Such exotic pruning techniques as pollarding (lopping off the top half of a tree so branches bristle ...

Leaves – deciduous, 3-6” long, elliptical to oblong, serrate with sharp incurved teeth, somewhat papery, and penniveined; similar to F. grandifolia, but often smaller with fewer teeth. The European ...

On a recent outing up on the North Shore with my sisters, we took a little detour so my sister, Chris, could show us her “favorite tree.” It is a magnificent purple beech, probably 80 or 90 feet tall ...

Aim: Establishing possible relationships between the magnitudes of the glacial distribution of the European beech, Fagus sylvatica L., and its post-glacial spread. Location: Europe. Methods: A ...

A scanning electron microscope reveals nematodes (highlighted in green) inside the spongy mesophyll of a European beech (Fagus sylvatica) leaf infected with beech leaf disease (BLD). Eggs are marked ...