The bark of a tree is its own protection against the weather. While we shrug on a coat when it’s wet or cold, a tree will ...

Purdue Landscape Report: These oak trees are showing the symptoms of smooth patch ( see below Figures 1, 2, 3). This condition is the result of a fungal infection that is restricted to the outer bark, ...

Santa Clarita Valley oak trees are being invaded by the goldspotted oak borer; an insect named for its iridescent black shell with gold spots that burrows underneath the bark of oak trees.

A: Good news — the ridges on the twigs and branches are normal, and the interesting corky-looking bark becomes an attractive ...

The leaves, bark and acorns of the oak were believed ... Playing the rings of an oak tree He uses a special camera that reads the grain on wooden discs sliced from trees and converts them into ...

Aiken Master Gardeners return to the Aiken Farmers Market in April. Bring your horticultural questions to the Master ...

In this edition of ID That Tree, Purdue Extension forester Lenny Farlee introduces you to chestnut oak, sometimes called rock chestnut ... It has small, very rounded lobed leaves and strongly ridged, ...

and the interesting corky-looking bark becomes an attractive feature of bur oak. The ridges on twigs and the main trunk become more pronounced as the tree ages. Bur oak is well adapted to Northern ...