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Pest Alert - Canker on Southern Magnolia

The Southern Magnolia is a popular plant in the landscapes of North Carolina. Lately, we have been seeing dead branches in the canopies of magnolias. Closer inspection reveals swollen cankers on the…

Plant Health Alert - Pink Disease in Landscape Plants

Over the last three years we have been getting an alarming number of reports of limbs dying in shrubs and trees. Hollies, cherry laurels, magnolias and other shrubs are exhibiting dying branches.…

Native Plant Profile: (Magnolia macrophylla), the Bigleaf Magnolia

My favorite native tree is the Bigleaf magnolia. Sometimes known as the 'newspaper tree', the huge leaves of Magnolia macrophylla, can be as big as 30 inches long. When they collect on the ground in…

Pest Alert - Tulip Poplar / Magnolia Weevil

Yellow poplar weevils or magnolia weevils (also known as Sassafras weevils) are small black beetles that often damage yellow poplar, magnolia and sassafras in western North Carolina in the spring of…