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26-08-2005, 03:50 AM

wrote:
This is an appropriate place to ask this question, yes. However, your
plant is not sunburned. It definitely has some kind of fungal
infection, most likeley phytophthora. Unfortunatley at this stage you
really have no option other than removal of the plant. Since the
pathogen is soil-borne, I would not recommend planting another
rhododendron in that spot.

Toad

Thanks all,

I didn't mention that it is in a very large planter so moving it was
simply a matter of sliding it into the shade. The temp here was in the
high 90's low 100's for about a week and that's when it started to show
what I thought was sunburn damage,my other Rhody which is in another
planter but always partially shaded shows no signs except where the
direct sun hit it so I'm hoping Toads analysis's is hopefully
misdiagnosed.