Feb. 2—On a quiet street in the city of Oneonta's Sixth Ward stands a century-old butternut tree, recently declared the largest tree of its kind in New York state by the state Department of ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — On Alcoa Highway, just five miles south of the University of Tennessee’s Agricultural Campus, is the East Tennessee Research Education Center-Plant Sciences Unit, a 212-acre field ...

Butternut country is so distinctive that Parker Nichols knows he has arrived even before he sees the first butternut tree. As the proprietor of Vermont WildWoods, a flooring and millwork company in ...

In this edition of ID That Tree, meet a rarely found native tree that is closely related to the black walnut, the butternut. The butternut has been plagued by fungal disease, but can be identified by ...

Do you hate to lose stuff? Most of us do. It stinks when we lose something that was really valuable, right? If that uncomfortable feeling of loss is something you care to fight, then consider the ...

Butternuts are soft and oily, with a light walnut flavor that lingers on the tongue. But few Americans have tasted this endangered native. Now, University of Connecticut undergraduates have published ...

Islanders are being urged to take precautions to prevent the spread of a tree fungus that has now been detected in three areas of P.E.I. Butternut canker is a fast-spreading disease that attacks ...