Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. The American beech (Fagus grandifolia) is the only species of beech ...

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

Beech trees have very smooth bark ... It can be tricky to use bark to identify a young tree. But there is another way to tell: scratch and sniff. The bark of some trees even has a scent in ...

Older shagbark hickory trees have “shaggy” bark peeling away from the trunk of the tree. Some oaks and even beech trees retain their leaves, called marcescence. The leaves shrivel and dry but ...

A healthy American beech, with its wide-spreading branches and rounded crown, is a movie-star tree, stately and leafy, six or so stories tall, the leaves edged like a saw, the bark smooth like the ...

Leaves of a beech tree infected with beech leaf disease at ... For almost a century, the trees have suffered from beech bark disease, a combination of insect and fungus attacks on the tree trunk.

There are around 37 million American beech trees in Michigan. You can identify them by their smooth bark. They provide food and shelter for wildlife. Simeon Wright, Michigan Department of Natural ...

Beech leaves infected with beech leaf disease ... been infected with beech bark disease, which gives beech trees bumpy bark. Halman said it’s more common to find beech trees infected with ...

odd-shaped leaves and darkened, thick tissue bands between leaf veins, creating a striped effect most easily seen by looking upward at trees on a sunny day. With beech bark disease — caused by a ...