they observed that sugar maples had significantly reduced growth and survival. Many trees have a beneficial partnership with mycorrhizal fungi. They mycorrhizal fungi essentially extend the root ...

Dear Jane: We have a large sugar maple tree ... of a girdling root at the trunk base. A girdling root can grow just above or below the soil surface, encircling the tree's trunk and slowly ...

The old sugar maple sits next to the spring and the ... on the tree and allow fungi to more easily infiltrate a tree’s root system. Individual trees and entire forests are becoming less ...

Q. Why is February maple sugar season? sugar stored in tree roots during winter above freezing days and below freezing nights cause sap to flow in trees sap from sugar maple trees has the highest ...

A beloved sugar maple slowly ... insulate her roots. Climate change probably made her more susceptible to the fungus, armillaria, the forester said. And she’s not the only tree stressed on ...

Maples are prone to root girdling because they have fast-growing, shallow root systems. The condition is becoming more common because most trees sold at nurseries and garden centers are now grown ...

As maple tree roots rise to the ... years – you risk limiting oxygen to the root system. That can have the same "suffocating" effect as burying the tree too deeply. A better idea in the long ...