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There are more than 18 million acres of forests in New York State, with forests filled with countless maple, oak, pine, birch ...
This can make beech trees more vulnerable to the elements, as well. The simple dark green leaves of beech trees are alternate. They feature entire or sparsely toothed (serrated) leaf margins with ...
A research study getting underway in Oakland Forest, an old-growth beech forest in Portsmouth, could shed light on treatments ...
A new study from Holden Forests & Gardens and the USDA Agricultural Research Service confirms that beech leaf disease—already devastating American beech trees in North America—also infects European ...
Connecticut's beech trees are dying from Beech Leaf Disease, which is caused by a microscopic worm. Thomas Worthley, a forest ...
"The wavy-edged leaves of beech turn a coppery-bronze in autumn." They added: "The crisp leaves stay on the tree throughout winter until they are pushed off by new leaf growth the following spring." ...
Nor had we heard of beech leaf disease, a poorly understood ... that means the disease has arrived. I take photos and send them to our tree guy with my stomach in my throat.
A new study from Holden Forests & Gardens and a team at USDA Agricultural Research Service confirms that beech leaf ... to internal leaf layers—changes that reduce the tree's ability to breathe ...