Our local forests have far fewer oak trees than were present in the 1800s and yet, of all our native trees, the oak tree is ...

Oak trees have been around for more than 50 million years, with individual trees easily living 1,000 years. One of the oldest oak trees in the U.S. is believed to be at least 2,624 years old.

Most trees have the type of cells that drop their leaves in the fall while marcescent trees don’t utilize the abscission cells to drop their leaves until the spring when the new buds form.

For those that are partially leafed out, we need to watch these closely. Partially leafed out could mean that you see scattered green leaves throughout the canopy or maybe “pockets” of fully ...

An oak can produce three million acorns in its lifetime — tons of protein, fat and carbohydrates — and a mature tree can drop as many as 700,000 leaves every year.

In the fall, a middle-aged man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of leaves. Raking them, mainly, but also wondering why his neighbor’s oak tree is shedding such freaking gigantic leaves.

When there are holes in the leaves or leaf edges are missing tissue, we add another symptom name to the mix: tatters. Distorted new growth and tatters are most common on white oaks and may ...

Oak wilt is one of the deadliest tree diseases in the U.S., responsible for killing millions of trees across 76 counties in Texas, according to the forest service.

Jun. 21—ATHENS — "What's wrong with the leaves on my oak tree? Is my tree dying?" Over the past several weeks, University of Georgia Cooperative Extension offices across north Georgia have ...

Not long after the centuries-old white oak tree in the middle of Carolina Avenue in South Roanoke collapsed on Aug. 27, Roanokers wanted to know if a tree would be ...