Sensing that the days are getting too short for their leaves to efficiently change sunlight into tree-feeding sugars, trees ...

In deciduous plants, senescence means about the same as what it does in humans — the process of deterioration with age.

Birch trees are magnificent trees to have in any garden. While they bring charm, color and character to a space, they have ...

As leaf peeping season is set to begin next month in Connecticut, countless people will be making the trek to the Nutmeg State to witness the array of red, orange and yellow leaves that makes fall a ...

FAIRBANKS, Alaska - The first signs of fall have begun to appear in parts of Alaska, with forecasters noting that trees around Fairbanks and across the North Slope are starting to lose some of their ...

Colorado State Forest Service entomologist Dan West says the first reports of yellowing aspen leaves started in mid-August. By late last week, as sightings of possible fall foliage continued across ...

On one of the friendliest platforms imaginable, a ferocious battle rages. While mowing its way through the surface of a trembling leaf, an aspen leaf miner meets one of its kind. Instead of offering a ...

An apple may not fall far from the tree, but for a leaf, it depends on its shape. Elm or apple leaves — oval and symmetrical, with few protruding lobes — fall quickly, making them likely to end up ...

DNA samples from one of the world’s largest and oldest plants — a quaking aspen tree (Populus tremuloides) in Utah called Pando — have helped researchers to determine its age and revealed clues about ...

The restoration of gray wolves in Yellowstone National Park has helped revive an aspen tree population unique to the region, a new study has found. Quaking aspen, one of the few deciduous tree species ...