Though it can, in some ways, be considered a landscaper's dream, the fast growth, dense foliage, and aggressive roots of the silver maple can easily turn into a nuisance for owners of homes and ...

There is a lot going on at Catoctin Furnace. The historic ironmaking village is home to an ironworker museum, blacksmith forge, an historic Airbnb experience, and now an officially recognized State ...

The classic and trusted book “Fifty Common Trees of Indiana” by T.E. Shaw was published in 1956 as a user-friendly guide to local species. Nearly 70 years later, the publication has been updated ...

- a common North American maple tree; five-lobed leaves are light green above and silvery white beneath; source of hard close-grained but brittle light-brown wood ...

A maple tree in Walford continues to leaf-out March 30 as conditions warm. Iowa’s silver maples and silver maple hybrids produced a surplus of seeds this year, likely as a response to several years of ...

The red maple (Acer rubrum) that puts on a show nationwide in the fall doesn't do very well here in our alkaline soils, but there are other maples available for use here in North Texas. Some are good ...

Anthracnose is a common spring disease on maple trees common in the landscape including red (Acer rubrum), silver (Acer saccharinum), sugar (Acer saccharum) and Japanese (Acer palmatum) maples.

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Corticolous lichen communities were studied on a small stream of West Virginia that was subject to periodic inundation by floodwaters of the Ohio River. A paucity of lichen cover on tree boles was ...