Q: Mushrooms suddenly appeared on my tree’s trunk. How can I treat them to protect the tree? A: Unfortunately, you can’t treat mushrooms growing out of wood, and the fungal growth that ...

“Trees, especially older trees, will sometimes have mushrooms growing directly on the trunk, which are feeding on dead wood. The part of the mushroom that is seen is the fruiting body.

This is the moment a hiker was baffled by a rare mushroom growing out of a tree trunk in China. Unusual footage by Mr Wang shows the fungi growing high up on a tree in Qiubei, Wenshan, Yunnan, on ...

If the tree smells like mushrooms or you can see white fan-shaped mycelia — thin, flat sheets of fungal tissue — growing below the bark, the tree is infected with the Armillaria fungi.

Answer: Honey-colored mushrooms growing at the base of a tree and bracket fungi growing on the trunk and branches are obvious signs of wood decay fungi, also known as heart rots, sap rots and ...

In today's "Fielding Questions" column, Don has bad news about a lilac in a local yard. A reader wonders what's growing on the trunk of their lilac tree. Special to The Forum ByDon Kinzler October ...