Q. In late spring, you wrote about canker on maple trees. The description fit the problem with our Norway maple perfectly. Our tree was planted by the builder about two years ago. We initially thought ...
Now that the landscape is green and the gardens are in bloom, it’s easy to tell which plants aren’t thriving. If you have an aspen tree struggling, the cause could be the fungus Cytospora. Cytospora ...
Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. The term " canker" is used to describe a killed area or blister on the bark, ...
When the branches of your trees and shrubs are bare in winter, you have an opportunity to spot cankers that might be hidden by leaves in summer. A canker is an area of disease in the wood of a plant. ...
In the past 15-plus years, there is no telling how many times I have answered a phone call or had someone come in to the office with the question, “My trees are dying, what is the problem?” You go ...
Q: I just removed a maple tree that had a bleeding canker. It has been slowly dying for the last few years. My question is before planting another tree in that area, do I need to treat the soil and if ...
The Bradford pear tree in our front yard has not been looking good this year. Some sections of the tree appear to have died, and the bark is coming off of large sections of the trunk. It also lost its ...
A tree service recently looked at one of our trees and said it had cankers. Can you explain what a tree canker is and what causes them? If you have a dead area of tissue on a tree leaf, it is called a ...
Students from different universities attending a summer program at UT's National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis are investigating the spread of thousand cankers disease, which has ...
TALLAHASSEE -- A state law requiring the removal of trees within 1,900 feet of one infected with citrus canker is being reviewed by the Florida Department of Agriculture in the aftermath of four ...
Florida agriculture officials can again search private back yards that may hold cankerous citrus trees — and even cut those trees down — without homeowners’ permission or presence, according to a 4th ...
Q. In late spring, you wrote about canker on maple trees. The description fit the problem with our Norway maple perfectly. Our tree was planted by the builder about two years ago. We initially thought ...