A decade after the emergence of beech leaf disease (BLD) in northeast Ohio, a new study by researchers at The Holden Arboretum reveals that American beech (Fagus grandifolia) is experiencing ...

Two of my favorite spring plants, almost entirely based upon their progression from bud to leaf, are beech trees and false hellebore (a common wetland plant). I was thinking about why they are so ...

A scanning electron microscope reveals nematodes (highlighted in green) inside the spongy mesophyll of a European beech (Fagus sylvatica) leaf infected with beech leaf disease (BLD). Eggs are marked ...

Pennsylvania naturalists are keeping an eye on a disease that has been killing beech trees in the eastern U.S. for more than a decade, but has begun spreading more rapidly in the past three years.

Local landowners are encouraged to check their beech trees for signs of invasive beech leaf disease after the disease was found in St. Clair County earlier this year. The disease causes characteristic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Russell Norton, horticulturist at the Cape Cod Cooperative Extension wrote In an email to the Cape Cod Times, that BLD was ...

Beech trees, one of the most abundant and crucial hardwood trees in New Hampshire, are getting pummeled by beech leaf disease this season. “The trees actually look quite terrible,” said Jeff Garnas, ...

BOLTON, N.Y. (NEWS10) – A disease threatening one of the Adriondack Park’s most commonly-sighted trees has reared its head. Last week, the Adirondack Park Invasive Plant Program (APIPP) reported a ...

There’s a disease wreaking havoc on beech trees in Pennsylvania. Beech leaf disease currently is found in all but two of the state’s 67 counties. Caused by microscopic nematodes, the disease infects ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. False Hellebore leaf Two of my favorite spring plants, almost entirely based upon their progression from bud to leaf, are beech ...

Brianna Shepherd, research specialist at Holden Forests & Gardens, measures the diameter of an American beech tree as part of a long-term study on the impacts of beech leaf disease. First observed in ...