While I was thinking I should write about a spring-like subject, the dawn chorus that now greets us every morning or the skunk cabbage and rhubarb pushing up through the thin remains of the snow, but ...

The visible mushroom is only the fruiting body; the majority of the organism lives underground as a fine network that ...

According to the calendar, winter began with the winter solstice of Dec. 21. It will end at the time of the vernal equinox March 21. As we travel through these days of the cold season, we might note ...

Q. I am attaching photos of my red oak tree. You'll see on one photo that the tree has bracket fungus growing out of its trunk. There is cracking of the bark, but no oozing. The other photo shows the ...

Birch Bracket (Piptoporus betulinus - also known as Razor Strop) is one of the most common polyporous bracket fungi and, as the name suggests, grows almost exclusively on Birch trees. The brackets ...

Dear Neil: I recently discovered a large kind of shelf-shaped growth at the base of one of my large pecan trees and another, smaller one growing on the opposite side of the tree. The tree was pruned ...

Plants and animals. Flora and fauna. While these phrases are familiar, they don't contain another kingdom of organisms crucial to local habitats. These life-forms are neither plants nor animals.

This is what you need to know to protect your trees. Question: Several mature trees in my landscape have mushrooms growing on their trunks and at their base. How can I protect the health of these ...