The new lineage has so far caused limited observable damage in San Mateo County, the Berkeley hills and Martinez – to bay laurel trees ... as it went on to kill large swaths of trees in coastal ...

A UC Berkeley-led citizen science project has discovered at least four outbreaks of a new, potentially more aggressive form ...

tree: the California bay laurel, native to the West Coast. These are so intense that they're sometimes described as medicinal. While they can be used anywhere you'd use a regular bay leaf ...