It is a fungus called Armillaria mellea, aka honey fungus, probably growing on injured or dead tree roots. It’s important to know that it is not a soil factor nor necessarily a sign of overall ...

A glimmer of hope has emerged for Britain's beloved ash trees. According to a new study published in Science, some wild ash ...

Is it a fungus, and is it harmful to the tree? The subject of our discussion today may cover some, or a majority, of the tree. It may appear grayish to light green, circular in nature and rather ...

To begin to figure out if a particular fungus really connects any two forest trees, scientists can sequence the fungus’s genes and construct a map of where genetically identical fungi are growing.

However, almost all mature American elm trees have been killed in the last 50 years by Dutch elm disease, which is caused by a fungus, Ophiostoma novo-ulmi, introduced from Asia. Elm bark beetles ...

OAKLAND (KPIX 5) -- There's new color in the East Bay Hills but they are not fall colors. The changing leaves may be the result of a mysterious and deadly tree fungus attacking acacia trees all ...

From 2000 to 2002, the fungus alone was responsible for causing $1.5 million damage to Georgia's peach trees. Not much was known about what makes the Armillaria ostoyae so hard to kill -- until now.

The fungus among us. Fungal friends in forests should not be ignored. To help guide people involved in creating new woodland, our new paper offers a number of ways that fungi can be considered to ...