Photo: istockphoto.com The black oak tree, named for its dark-black/brownish-gray bark, features glossy green oak leaves that have bristles at the tips of the lobes. Autumn foliage is red and ...

Red oak leaves have pointed lobes, whereas white oak leaves have rounded ones. Red Oak bark tends to be dark gray with ridges, whereas white oak, as the name implies, has white-looking bark.

DEAR NEIL: We have a red oak in our backyard. Bark started peeling in the fall, but it has become prevalent this spring.

Like the rest of the red/black oak group, the Northern Red Oak has multi-lobed leaves with bristle tips. This native tree, however, has a group of buds at the terminal end of the stem that are smooth, ...

The color and texture of the bark is the first thing I look at to identify a tree in winter. Tree bark comes in a variety of shades of brown, gray and black, though many have a yellow, orange, red ...

Q. I have a 3-year-old Shumard red oak that has done wonderfully, but recently I noticed large patches of bark missing and parts of the tree starting to yellow. One arborist told me it was due to ...

Internal tissues of the trunks are exposed by the massive losses of bark. Your prime way to prevent that is to protect the trunks with paper tree wrap from the ground up to the lowest branches.

Question: There is some sort of "bark blight" infecting our tall native oak trees. The bark flakes off in small sections. We are told by the local tree service that there is no cure for this ...

There is an enormous red oak tree at Walnut Park on north Fifth Street. When you go to see it, stand back away from it at first to try to get an idea of its size. Then go in under it, right to the ...