A single large pin oak tree can rain down up to 400,000 oak leaf itch mites per day. Oak mites can live through the winter in protected areas or within leaves/leaf litter on the ground.

In full sun, poplar will grow faster than almost any other native species we have, putting on growth rings that would dwarf even the most vigorous oak tree. Poplar firewood, while not as valued as ...

Purdue Landscape Report: Each spring the PPDL receives several samples of oak trees showing curled, twisted, stunted and/or generally ratty looking leaves.When there are holes in the leaves or leaf ...

Dazzling oak leaf prints merge science and nature. Story by James Dinneen • 5d. By James Dinneen. An average mature oak tree grows hundreds of thousands of leaves each year.

A shingle oak tree holds on to all its leaves in Feb. in Lake County. (Photo by Sheryl DeVore/For the Lake County News-Sun) Wandering along the trail at Lakewood, we noticed some trees had lost ...

The trees demonstrated up to 62 percent more Rubisco content and about a 25% increase in net leaf CO2 uptake. In field conditions, scientists found that higher expression of Booster resulted in poplar ...

Among the most alarming are Bacterial Leaf Scorch (BLS) and Oak Wilt, both of which can kill oak trees. “Most of the time, oak wilt is vectored or carried from tree to tree by insects. So it’s ...

An average mature oak tree grows hundreds of thousands of leaves each year. When those leaves fall, their nutrients return to the soil to nourish the tree that grew them, as well as other living ...