Sulfur fungus grows on maple trees. Some mushrooms that grow on trees are parasites that penetrate tree bark and feed on the living tree's nutrients. Others feed on dead or decaying matter.

The fungus gradually decomposes the outer layers of bark, producing the flattened and smooth surfaces ... Figure 5 and 6 – Yellow-bellied sapsucker feeding activity on sugar maple trees. These are ...

Q: Over the last couple of years, our Norway and Sunset maples have developed long, vertical splits in the bark ... trees are nearby but do not compete with these maples. One Sunset maple is ...

Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. First, some maple trees do shed plates of bark, and sometimes these can be in rings around the tree. However, the tree is already putting ...

Q: I have a 'Red Sunset' maple tree that has what looks to be split bark on the south side of the trunk. It is a relatively young tree, and I do not want to lose it. I'm attaching a photo so you ...

What can I do to keep squirrels from chewing bark off the trunks of my oak and maple trees? Squirrels can cause damage, from nipping off the tips of limbs to stripping the bark off trees.

This maple, in a row of trees along the parking ... powdery patches that are the telltale marks on tree bark of the fungus Cryptotostroma corticale. At least 46 street trees have been observed ...

Dried leaves, bark scraps, fallen walnuts — just about everything on the forest floor looked like a morel. I was roughly 40 minutes into a forest trek to find morel mushrooms. The prized culinary ...

The sugar maple in 2022; photographs of the tree taken in 1942 ... Each has different characteristics. One has a “bark inclusion,” a dark brown mushroom-shaped mark where a branch had been ...

When we see something weird growing on tree bark, it is usually algae ... common fungi found on trees is Armillaria mellea. This fungus grows on a wide range of hosts, both dead and alive.

I have a maple tree that has been planted for five years. The trunk is about three-and-a-half inches in diameter. I just noticed these vertical separations in the bark near the base. Are these ...

If I remove the bark, I might see bright ... For our old maple, the Armillaria fungus is a death knell. There is no way for the tree to recover. “Once it colonizes the root system and displays ...