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  • Invasives in Your Woodland: Chinese and Japanese Wisteria

    … direction in which these invasive wisterias twine around a tree can be diagnostic. A Chinese Wisteria vine twines counterclockwise around a Princess tree in Calvert County, MD in 2018. Photo by Jim Brighton, … direction in which these invasive wisterias twine around a tree can be diagnostic. A Japanese Wisteria vine twines …

  • Poison Ivy

    … on its age and growing conditions. When growing in a tree, mature vines become thick and develop dark brown hairy … extensive branches that look like the branches of the tree. Poison ivy vines do not harm the trees to which they … spread by birds and other animals that eat the small fruits. Poison ivy can get started in the landscape and in a …

  • Branching Out - Fall 2023

    … Stewards workshop and field trip, and about using the i-Tree app to create woodland assessments. One of our regular … "Invasives in Your Woodlands" looks at the white mulberry tree. And don't forget the events calendar and the Brain … of Delaware and Virginia. Learn more >>   Using i-Tree for Landscape Tree Assessment John Hooven, UME Forest …

  • Oriental Bittersweet

    … flowers are inconspicuous followed by green to yellow fruits that burst open to display orange-red seeds persisting …

  • Invasives in Your Woodland: English Ivy

    … English ivy foliage climbing pine tree in September. Photo by Chuck … Bugwood.org Updated: May 3, 2022 By Andrew Kling English ivy can be found in many areas throughout Maryland and the … all levels of forested and open area. What is it? English ivy ( Hedera helix ) is also known as European ivy, or simply …

  • Calico Scale

  • Periodical (17-year) Brood X Cicadas

    … most of their lives as nymphs, feeding on xylem sap from tree roots.   After developing for 17 years below ground on … emergence holes about 1/2″ diameter around the base of the tree.    Nymphs are wingless, pale white to tan nymphs with a … themselves for feeding first on grass roots and then on to tree roots as they get larger. After developing for 17 years …

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  • Branching Out Summer 2023 News and Notes

    … “family forests”: as little as one acre with at least 10% tree coverage owned by an individual, family, or …