Fearer and colleagues from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences are working to develop a native fungus as a biocontrol for the tree-of-heaven. Researchers are examining whether the ...

National Geographic referred to the tree of heaven as the “hellish invasive species” in 2021. It is a fast-growing deciduous tree that provides food for the spotted lanternfly, kills native ...

Eradication efforts include physical trapping of the insect in all life stages, removal of tree of heaven and continued monitoring by the Department of Agriculture and citizens for new populations ...

Tree-of-heaven is native to Asia but has been widely planted in North America and now spreads naturally as a serious invasive tree threat. In this episode of ID That Tree, Purdue Extension forester ...

Donate now. Despite its exalted namesake, the Tree of Heaven is a legitimate nightmare to control. The fast-growing tree — up to 1 inch a week in some documented instances, according to botanist ...

Scientists are now experimenting with using the fungi to kill tree of heaven, by hacking the trunk ... into the soil where the V. nonalfalfae life cycle begins anew. “It doesn't just kill ...

Purdue Landscape Report: Despite the sublime name, tree-of-heaven, Ailanthus altissima, is a particularly bad actor when it comes to trees encountered in the Midwest. This native of Asia was ...

Tree-of-heaven is fast-growing, reaching up to 80 feet in the sky, adorned with compound leaves with 10 to 27 pointed leaflets. Underground, its robust root system can extend as far as 50 feet.