While everyone is enjoying the outdoors as the weather warms up, some uninvited guests, such as spongy moth caterpillars, can ...

Sunday in that bleak pandemic summer of 2020, the air near central California’s Big Basin Redwoods State Park felt muggy, almost tropical. Weird, thought naturalist Christian ...

Most underground fungi remain unknown, and urgent action is needed to study their crucial role in sustaining ecosystems the ...

Mycorrhizal fungi help regulate the Earth's climate and ecosystems by forming underground networks that provide plants with ...

Neonectria ditissima is the fungal cause of costly European Canker (EC) in apple trees. A range of secondary metabolites were found at higher concentrations in infected twigs than in disease free ...

Costco has great deals on tons of different products, and this includes plants. Not every product is a hit, however, and ...

The Maryland Department of Agriculture says that conditions of beech leaf disease is worsening across the state.In release ...

When trees and soil fungi form close associations with each other, both partners benefit. Many tree species have further enhanced this cooperation by forming a concurrent symbiosis with two ...

Meet Ganoderma tsugae, the hemlock varnish shelf fungus and ... Pennsylvania's state tree, the eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis, from which the mushroom received the species name tsugae).

These edible fungi ... tree, it is easy to spot and hard to mistake for anything else. It is also one of the tastiest edible wild mushrooms when in good condition. Although there are several shelf ...

A meander through the woods now will show many fungi that stick out from the sides of trees and logs. These shelf fungi (bracket) can be of various sizes and shapes. Unlike the typical mushrooms ...

Trees now account for more than a quarter of all species on the Red List and are at risk of extinction in nearly every country. Fungi — or a lack thereof — could partly explain why trees are ...