Keep your maples healthy & hearty by learning to recognize common maple tree diseases & knowing how to prevent or treat them ...

Q: I have a maple tree at my summer home that has a large area of bark missing and the underlying wood is soft. The tree is alive, but I am concerned about the "open wound." This started about two ...

Q: About seven years ago, we planted a maple tree. During the second spring, the bark began to split on one side. We asked the nursery where we purchased the tree if this would be a problem. We ...

Q.: My Japanese maple is about 20 years old now. The trunk is divided and I have thought of securing the two trunks together with something because of the extra weight of snow and ice in the winter.

Feed the tree this fall. I believe strongly in feeding trees and shrubs (except newly planted ones) every year, even the old-timers. A maple tree under stress from canker could use the boost.

Pamela Corle-Bennett is the state master gardener volunteer coordinator and horticulture educator for Ohio State University Extension. Contact her by email at [email protected]. Tree diseases are ...

The fungus spreads by spores, and it’s those spores that can enter a person’s lungs and cause an allergic reaction called Maple Bark Disease. In parts of Europe, tree fallers toppling infected ...

Maple bark disease. Hulbert doesn’t wear a mask when examining trees and said the general public needn’t worry about walking past trees. When mature, the fungus releases clouds of airborne spores.

Recent sightings of invasive species and a tree disease in and near Washington have state officials asking the public to keep their eyes open and report anything that seems out of the ordinary.

Joe Hulbert who has a PhD in plant diseases and is a researcher at WSU takes a sample from a Big Leaf Maple Tree that has been infected by sooty bark on Monday July 11, 2022 at Franklin Park in ...

Sooty Bark Disease can kill native and non-native trees. ... Hulbert led a pair of journalists to a grove of red maple trees in Franklin Park. Hulbert, who has a Ph.D. in plant diseases, ...

Maple bark disease Hulbert doesn’t wear a mask when examining trees and said the general public needn’t worry about walking past trees. Researcher Joe Hulbert bags a sample of bark infected ...