We came upon a downed tree next to the river that had some spongy orange things growing from the cracks. I told them this was a kind of mushroom called witch’s butter.

When a mushroom is growing on the trunk or roots of a living tree, it indicates that there is a fungus growing in the tree’s ...

Mushrooms sprout where compost was applied, where an old piece of wood is decomposing, or where a tree stump or its roots have rotted. Thus, mushrooms can be a positive sign, indicating a high ...

Q. Our young navel orange tree has a tall sprout coming up the middle. This is the first year the sprout has grown leaves; before it was just thorns. Should this sprout be cut off? This year’s ...

Now I see about 5 or 6 with orange tentacles on the tree; there may be more. Weird looking, aren’t they? These are cedar-apple rust galls that grow on our native Eastern red cedar… ...