Elytroderma deformans is a needle disease that often causes witches brooms in ponderosa pine ... of wounded trees. The fungus can move from tree to tree through roots or by insects.

Ponderosa pine bark’s butterscotch smell comes from ... they grasped the wisdom hidden in each tree, roots to crown: a wisdom that I suspect can be mythically traced back to the Trees of ...

The strongest evidence for trees sending resources via fungal pathways in a forest comes from a 2008 study in which mesh allowed fungi, but not roots, to connect ponderosa pine seedlings to older ...

Ponderosa pine trees are one of the most ubiquitous conifer ... where if enough of the trees' tissues or vessels going from the roots all the way to the leaves or needles collapse, then they ...

but these don’t make the best landscape trees due to their shallow roots and enormous mature size. And yes, there are Colorado Spruce and Ponderosa Pines that are native to the mountain ...

Big Tree measures 28 feet, 11 inches in circumference, 162 feet tall and is approximately 500 years old. The ponderosa pine with the largest circumference on record is in La Pine State Park.