Image credit: Backyard Garden Lover. Growing and spreading rapidly in even the poorest soils and with little water, tree of heaven is, despite its name, the very definition of "weed tree." It can ...

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 ...

When early gardeners first brought tree of heaven to the United States, the country itself was less than a decade old. In the hundreds of years since, this ornamental tree has spread itself far and ...

Hello Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners! This week I want to talk about tree of heaven (Ailanthus altissima), an invasive species from Asia. It has been in the news lately because it is a major ...

The tree of heaven (Ailanthus altissima) is a fast-growing tree species that is considered invasive in the United States. Native to China, Korea, and Taiwan, the tree of heaven was introduced to the U ...

Last August, I penned an article about identifying tree-of-heaven (ToH), a favorite host of one of Indiana’s newest invasive insects, the spotted lanternfly. Recently, Purdue Extension has released a ...

RAPHINE, Va. — The kudzu of the tree world could one day be controlled by a fungus. Virginia Tech graduate student Rachel Brooks is testing how the fungus verticillium attacks tree of heaven, an ...

The Western Pennsylvania Conservancy is using herbicide to kill tree of heaven trees to combat the spread of spotted lanternflies. The invasive insects threaten the regional grape industry. The tree ...