You don't have to miss out on the stunning beauty of maple trees just because you have a compact yard. Consider these maple species for your small garden.

One of the most important, yet challenging, skills to nail down as a wilderness survivalist is tree identification ... When ...

Maple sugar season is underway in northern Ohio and the future of the sugar maple (acer saccharum) may be in question. Forest or sugar bush maple trees are the source of maple sugar sap used to ...

All of this information can help you find the essential markers needed to identify a tree. Leaves, bark, twigs, and fruit can make quick work of tree identification.

The outer bark is what we see. It protects the tree from animals and the weather. It is constantly renewed from the inner bark (phloem), which carries food from the leaves to the rest of the tree ...

The center of a tree or shrub stem (from roots to trunk, branches, and twigs) is woody, composed of xylem cells that conduct water from the roots to the upper parts of the tree. That woody section ...

You may remember your first glimpse of a Japanese maple tree: dramatic, delicate, and even a bit melancholy, this feathery-leafed beauty leaves a mark on you. This specimen tree's small size keeps the ...

Try some plants with standout bark to make things interesting after the leaves fall. Paperbark maple trees (Acer griseum) are great candidates for brightening the gloom. These trees are perfect for a ...

In Ontario’s Niagara Region, the historic Comfort Maple stands as a proud symbol of Canada’s natural heritage. This majestic sugar maple tree, towering at almost 25 meters tall with a trunk wider than ...

Controlling maple petiole borer is difficult and generally unnecessary. Although leaf drop may at times be large enough to cause concern, rarely does more than 25% of the tree’s leaves fall.

Environmental students at Keystone College call it bark to bottle: tap the tree, boil the sap, and bottle the syrup, but this year, there wasn't much of the process.