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Bacterial Wetwood (Slime Flux) in Trees

Bacterial Wetwood (Slime Flux) in Trees

HOST PLANTS:  Bacterial wetwood/slime flux is host to Maple trees, Elm trees, Oak trees, Tulip trees and Poplar trees. DAMAGE:  Many mature trees exhibit large light or dark vertical streaks on their trunks resulting from slimy liquid oozing out of cracks or wounds...

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Anthracnose in Trees: Symptoms, Causes & Treatment

Anthracnose in Trees: Symptoms, Causes & Treatment

  HOST PLANTS:  Ash, Maple, Oak, Sycamore, Elm, Dogwood DAMAGE: Anthracnose is characterized by blight of very young leaves and shoots or by irregular necrotic blotches on expanded leaflets. In years of prolonged wet spring weather with moderate temperatures, the leaf...

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Algae, Lichen and Moss on Trees and Shrubs

Algae, Lichen and Moss on Trees and Shrubs

HOST PLANTS:  Any trees or shrubs, which are lacking in vigour, particularly those which are already beginning to die back can be affected by algae, lichen or mosses. In these circumstances the growth of lichen in particular is often unjustly blamed for the poor...

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