Q: We live on acreage just south of Little Rock. I'm attaching several photos taken today (March 7) of two large cedar trees that have grown naturally on my property (see reader photos). They are at ...

Kansas City is used to rainy spring days, but with so much rain in the forecast, you may have noticed something strange popping up on some of your trees. It’s an orange or red, alien-looking form, ...

ST. LOUIS — Hikers out among Missouri's trees will soon begin to notice an orange goo encroaching on trunks and even dripping from branches, according to the Missouri Department of Conservation.

QUESTION: Does cedar apple rust actually harm the cedar tree or is it just unsightly? We planted a crabapple tree nearby a few years ago, and now the cedar has a lot of those rust galls. If the rust ...

Image of the Day: Cedar-apple Rust Wind shuttles spores released from a gall on an apple tree to a cedar tree in order to complete the life cycle of the devastating cedar-apple rust.

Have you noticed a strange growth in your cedar trees? What you may be seeing is a disease called cedar apple rust. The growth is called a gall. These galls are light brown, reddish or chocolate brown ...

Q • What are the strange, brown, globular growths on my juniper? Write to the Missouri Botanical Garden's Center for Home Gardening at plantinformation@mobot.org or the Horticulture Answer Service, ...