Other trees with "maple-like" leaves—the sycamore, sweetgum, and yellow poplar—have leaves that are alternate in arrangement. Maples are among the most shade-tolerant deciduous trees and ...

Your maple tree has tar spot, a fungal disease that infected the leaves of your soft maple in early spring. Symptoms of maple tar spot begin with small greenish-yellow spots that begin to form on ...

Because the most common cause of this yellowing is iron deficiency, the disorder is called iron chlorosis (pronounced klor-OH ...

As popular as these trees are, people become alarmed about this time of year when the leaves on some of these maple trees have large black spots that look like they’ve been splattered with tar.

This past month I began to observe that the leaves on some of my maple trees located in the forested part of the property began to yellow and drop ... It is a system that has evolved over millions ...

Question: we have several maple trees in our neighborhood afflicted with ... Symptoms first appear in late spring or early summer as infected leaves develop light green or yellow-green spots. During ...

your tree may have an insect problem and the maple petiole borer may be the culprit. Although trees drop leaves for other reasons (drought, squirrels, heavy aphid infestations), defoliation caused ...

The spiky, iconic Canadian maple leaf ... it is — is part of its function. Even trees from the same species can have very different-looking leaves in different climates. At left is a typical ...