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2008-07-08 Plant Diseases - dwarf weeping cherry tree: Check the fallen leaves and those that are yellow for small holes in the leaf surface that go all the way through. This would be a condition called shot-hole caused by a fungus. This is usually not too...
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2008-07-07 Plant Diseases - Birch Disease: Hi Kelly What you describe sounds like an aphid infestation. These insects will leave a sugary substance on the leaf surfaces and will also drip onto the bark of branches. On this sugary substance...
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2008-07-07 Plant Diseases - Cleveland Pear Tree: There may be some fire blight on the tree. It will not kill the tree, most likely. Fire blight is an environmentally driven bacterial disease and may be severe in one year and non-existent in the next...
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2008-07-07 Plant Diseases - black fungus? on pine trees: What you are describing sounds like a form of sooty mold, which is a harmless mold growing on the plant surface because of sugars deposited by insects feeding higher up in the tree. The bugs can be on...
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2008-07-07 Native Plants - Plant identification: I suspect that you're looking at an unripe fruiting jack-in-the-pulpit with broken leaf stalks. The two stalks branching off the central stem should have leaves, but they do start to die back as the fruit...
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