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Chicken of the woods is an edible mushroom with a texture and taste that is said to resemble chicken. The fruiting bodies tend to have many shelves, and can be found up a tree trunk or as a cluster at the base of a tree.

Dead man’s fingers is a fungal pathogen that grows in small towering groups of three to six mushrooms and resemble fingers coming out of the ground.

Dogwoods are treasured landscape trees. A destructive disease known as anthracnose can tarnish their beauty, degrade their health, or even kill the tree.

There are various species of wasps that may infest oak trees, but two common species include the horned oak gall wasp (Callirhytis cornigera) and the gouty oak gall wasp (Callirhytis quercuspunctata). These pests cause galls, or abnormal plant growths, found on foliage and twigs.