• Background and Aims Masting, i.e. synchronous but highly variable interannual seed production, is a strong sink for carbon and nutrients. It may, therefore, compete with vegetative growth. It is ...

Thus far in my ruminations about plants, I have kept my dorkitude focused on smallish plants. True Welwitschia (https://valleyadvocate.com/blogs/home.cfm?aid=13287 ...

Leaves – deciduous, 3-6” long, elliptical to oblong, serrate with sharp incurved teeth, somewhat papery, and penniveined; similar to F. grandifolia, but often smaller with fewer teeth. The European ...

Distribution of tree seedlings, forest architecture, light conditions, ground vegetation and humus conditions were studied in a 45 m x 100 m area including multiple gaps in an old-growth beech forest.

American beeches have been suffering recently from a disease widespread in both Connecticut landscapes and forests.

BOSTON (WWLP) -The Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) says agency foresters have positively identified beech trees with Beech Leaf Disease (BLD) in three Massachusetts communities. In a ...

Is any tree lovelier than the beech? When the new season’s leaves begin to push out from long, pointy buds, we can be certain that spring is here. In no time at all, the emerging leaves will shake out ...

The fernleaf European beech is a grand tree with a soft, furry appearance from a distance. Beech leaves usually are entire -- that is, smooth along their margins -- but the foliage of the fernleaf ...