| AFFECTING LEAVES: |
|
CONDITION
|
CAUSE
|
 |
Leaves
with blackened spotting |
Anthracnose (Apiognomonia
veneta)
|
|
| AFFECTING TWIGS AND SMALLER BRANCHES: |
|
CONDITION
|
CAUSE
|
|
Discolored
areas, dead bark containing small pinmple-like fruiting bodies
(pycnidia) |
Cytospora canker (Valsa
spp., Leucostoma spp.)
|
|
Witches’
broom with dead small branches |
Anthracnose (Apiognomonia
veneta)
|
|
| AFFECTING LARGER BRANCHES OR TRUNK: |
|
CONDITION
|
CAUSE
|
|
Discolored
areas, dead bark containing small pinmple-like fruiting bodies
(pycnidia) |
Cytospora canker (Valsa
spp., Leucostoma spp.)
|
|
Clear to
white oozing or frothy malodorous liquid |
Bacterial wetwood /
Slime flux
|
