You may identify an American beech by its bark. The light bluish-gray exterior, which has a slight resemblance to an elephant's legs or trunk, remains fairly smooth as the tree ages.

Unfortunately, there is a substantial threat to this tree that spans across the eastern United States — beech leaf disease ...

With time, your beech tree's bark will become covered in cankers. The tree may also show signs of overall decline, such as ...

It can be tricky to use bark to identify a young tree. But there is another way to tell: ... A few trees, like the beech and some oak species, hold onto their leaves in the winter.

For questions regarding beech trees or anything else horticulturally related, please call our office at 732-431-7260. Dennis McNamara is an agriculture program associate at the Rutgers Cooperative ...

3 B’s help to identify trees Life. Jan 2, 2023. KATIE KANE SHIPKA Master Gardener. ... The easiest and most common rule to follow is the “three B’s” — branches, buds and bark.

For almost a century, the trees have suffered from beech bark disease, a combination of insect and fungus attacks on the tree trunk. The infection wiped out most big beech trees in Massachusetts ...

With beech bark disease — caused by a tiny insect called a scale that burrows into trees and then makes them susceptible to a fungal infection — adult trees are weakened internally, until they ...