Two of my favorite spring plants, almost entirely based upon their progression from bud to leaf, are beech trees and false hellebore (a common wetland plant). I was thinking about why they are so ...

It's no day at the beach for beech trees on Cape Cod these days. A malady known as beech leaf disease (BLD), first detected in Ohio in 2012, has made its way to Massachusetts, where it was first seen ...

Pennsylvania naturalists are keeping an eye on a disease that has been killing beech trees in the eastern U.S. for more than a decade, but has begun spreading more rapidly in the past three years.

In just a decade, this unusual disease has spread from Ohio across the Northeast. Scientists are testing treatments, but answers come slowly. Backlit leaves of an American beech tree show dark bands, ...

Local landowners are encouraged to check their beech trees for signs of invasive beech leaf disease after the disease was found in St. Clair County earlier this year. The disease causes characteristic ...

Above: This photo tells an entire story. Taken at Roan Mountain State Park in Tennessee in January, it shows most of the deciduous trees are bare. However, you can easily see the light tan colors of ...

Beech leaf disease is out there once again, decimating beech trees in Massachusetts, as it has in the past. It's a relatively new tree disease, which first appeared in 2012 in Ohio, and has since ...

But there’s hope, and that’s where Holden Arboretum is playing an important role, whether it’s researching spread of the disease, experimenting with insecticides, or trying to clone trees that are ...

Brown leaf: Dark bands may remain visible on affected leaves during winter. Photo courtesy of Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Forestry. (L); Withered leaves: Thick bands of leaf tissue may turn ...

Scientists are investigating the reasons some plants still wear last season’s tattered clothes.