Ultimately, I moved on to bigger game — the woefully misnamed tree of heaven. Perhaps the name comes from the fact that, when you crush the leaves, they stink to high heaven.

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.

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Tree of heaven additionally will be targeted at Fairview's Pleasant Ridge Park, off West Ridge Road; at Harborcreek's Whitford Park, on Iroquois Avenue, and Highmeyer Park, on Highmeyer Road; and ...