This pale brown mushroom commonly grows on the base and roots of oaks but may select other hardwood ... Lion's mane usually targets injured hardwood trees like oaks, elms, beech, maple, and sycamore.

Q. My maple tree has black spots on the leaves that just appeared recently. Should I be concerned about this? What should I do? A. Sometimes wet conditions earlier in the season can cause problems ...

Maple leaves with a fungus known as tar spot" disease are seen on the ground under a Maple tree at Albany Rural Cemetery on Monday, Sept. 11, 2017 in Menands, N.Y. (Lori Van Buren / Times Union) ...

The sugar maple in 2022; photographs of the tree taken in 1942, top, and 1952; the tree’s ... One has a “bark inclusion,” a dark brown mushroom-shaped mark where a branch had been trimmed or ...

This year’s wet weather seems to be spawning an unusually sizable harvest for fans of hen of the woods, a ruffled, circular earth-toned mushroom that grows at the base of trees.

Controlling maple petiole borer is difficult and generally unnecessary. Although leaf drop may at times be large enough to cause concern, rarely does more than 25% of the tree’s leaves fall.

For our old maple, the Armillaria fungus is a death knell. There is no way for the tree to recover. “Once it colonizes the root system and displays visible mushrooms, the fungus is well ...