Staring at tree bark doesn’t seem that exciting ... As I walked, I took note of the brick red undertone of oak trees and the smooth surface of paper birch, curling in great white sheets.

tree bark and crevices. Nowhere is the action busier than around native Quercus, or oak trees, a keystone genus teeming with more life than any other plant on earth. A native oak is a biodiversity ...

Santa Clarita Valley oak trees are being invaded by the goldspotted oak borer; an insect named for its iridescent black shell with gold spots that burrows underneath the bark of oak trees.

In this edition of ID That Tree, Purdue Extension forester Lenny Farlee introduces you to chestnut oak, sometimes called rock chestnut ... It has small, very rounded lobed leaves and strongly ridged, ...

By Aislinn Sarnacki Have you ever noticed how much tree bark varies in texture, color and pattern? If your answer is “no,” I ...