Have you ever paused beneath a towering oak or maple and wondered if that rough, gnarled bark is hiding secrets? What if I ...

The last cinnamon bark tree that must be mentioned is big berry manzanita (Arctostphylos glauca). It grows slowly to a height of 20 feet with an equal spread. Two trees with green trunks deserve ...

Every species of tree has unique characteristics, from its bark to its leaves, that you can use as clues to identify ...

Identification of the Northern White Cedar. ... You will often see diamond-shaped bark patterns and the tree's form is a small to medium-sized tree shaped like an arrowhead or a pyramid.

Clearly, bark varies considerably from species to species, and some types of trees are easily identified by the kind of bark they have. The bark of this tree is certainly easily recognized.

A walk in the woods this time of year is different. It’s quiet and monochromatic. Other than the crunch of your shoes on frozen ground, there isn’t as much to see or hear as a forest in spring ...

This means our urban forest is lacking biodiversity, because no single species should compose more than 10% of the tree population. Urban forests are more susceptible to pathogens and pests when ...

The trunk of the tree is covered with thin, mostly smooth bark, and even on small trees it is commonly rippled and waved, appearing to some like taut muscle.

Green bark is found on trees and shrubs of many different, unrelated species. In Australia, young bottle trees of Queensland forest and scrubland have green bark that turns dark with age.

TANNERSVILLE — Marc Wolf steps off a trail at the Mountaintop Arboretum to examine a beech tree with mottled, bumpy bark. “This is pretty typical of beech bark disease,” he said. “Beech ...