“This maple in the front, for example, has already started to lose its leaves.” Rorigi says one of the best things you can do to avoid this fungus infesting your own trees is to be sure to ...

Already, the bigleaf maple is under increasing stress because of climate change: longer, hotter summers are weakening the immune systems of the trees, in some cases killing them.

DEAR JANET: We have a problem with our lone Japanese Maple tree in our front flower bed. We think it has a fungus, and we're not really sure if we can do anything to save it.

There is a fungus that feeds on the oozed sap, turning it black. It has no effect on the health of the tree. That said, from the picture, the tree does seem to be leaning quite a bit.

Judi Ketteler - March 23, 2023 Illustration by Dola Sun Last summer, I learned that the beloved maple tree in our front yard had brittle cinder fungus and was rotting from the bottom up. Nearly the ...

In response he explained it was a fungal disease, maple leaf anthracnose, a condition that has actually been discovered throughout our region. Thankfully it is not usually fatal to the tree. Here is ...

They mycorrhizal fungi essentially extend the root network of plants and trees, allowing them to reach more water and nutrients. The fungi can also protect the trees from disease or toxins.

Although it may look like the maple trees are dead, they aren�t. The blackened leaves are a result of anthracnose, a fungus that infects mostly silver maples but some soft maples as well ...