NEWPORT — A new pathogen, discovered in Ohio 10 years ago, has made its arrival in Newport and poses a serious threat to the city's finest collection of trees, its beloved beeches. According to a ...

A new study of European beech trees reveals that their root systems respond more to short-term changes in soil water than to the long-term wetness of their growing sites. During dry periods, beech ...

GLENSIDE — Copper Beech Elementary School recently celebrated Arbor Day and honored the life of its “ElemenTree”, the original European Copper Beech tree that stood on its property for a century and ...

European beech trees more than 1,500 kilometers apart all drop their fruit at the same time in a grand synchronization event now linked to the summer solstice. Each summer, like clockwork, millions of ...

The beech tree, with its gray bark and striking red foliage, is a staple of the state's landscape. American beech trees are native to the eastern U.S. and grow in most states. Colonists brought ...

Each summer, like clockwork, millions of beech trees throughout Europe sync up, tuning their reproductive physiology to one another. Within a matter of days, the trees produce all the seeds they’ll ...

A scanning electron microscope reveals nematodes (highlighted in green) inside the spongy mesophyll of a European beech (Fagus sylvatica) leaf infected with beech leaf disease (BLD). Eggs are marked ...

TAUNTON — While it’s not exactly Fangorn Forest, Massachusetts is home to some pretty old trees, and one of the oldest might be right here in the city. In fact, Taunton might be home to what is ...

Philadelphia’s champion tree, The Great Beech, measured above 100 feet tall, making it the tallest of its kind in the United States. It’s slowly dying. The Great Beech once had five boundless trunks — ...