The tree disease that exploded in Bay Area forests three decades ago, stunning residents with vast die-offs in parks and neighborhoods before slowing, has opened a new front with a second, potentially ...

California bay leaves come from a completely different type of tree, the California bay laurel (Umbellularia californica). These leaves have a slender long shape and a more intense, menthol–like ...

Tanoaks, California black oaks ... To diminish the likelihood that oaks catch the disease from bay laurel trees, experts recommend trimming the latter. Bay laurels should be cut back to no ...

on Wednesday, July 13, 2011. Crews from the California Conservation Corps are cutting down bay laurel trees carrying the S The professor says the new strains are more harmful than previous.

(Courtesy photo) Eligible participants can choose from a selection of climate-appropriate native trees, including island ironwood, elderberry, coast live oak, toyon, and California bay laurel.

However, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have discovered at least four outbreaks of the intruder infecting bay laurel trees in San Mateo, Alameda and Contra Costa counties.

Delicious, fragrant bay leaves come from the bay laurel, a perennial shrub or tree with pale yellow flowers and black fruit, attractive olive-to-reddish bark, and dark leathery leaves. Bay leaves ...