Scott Harper wrote:
In article , wrote:

check this out

http://www.wildflower.org/expert/show.php?id=1540


That's encouraging to hear, and is about what I suspected... however, none of
the specific diseases he references (from the pictures in the link to his
article) are what I'm seeing. I am pretty sure it's not oak wilt though...


scott

Every time we had a bunch of summer rain there are numerous posts about
oak branch tips browning out and littering the yard. The article's
comment about only and inch or two of twig/branch being affected seemed
too conservative from my observations. I'm seeing it on my backyard live
oaks and some places it's several inches. Since we've lived here for +20
years and have seen this about 4-5 times without any permanent tree
damage I'm not losing any sleep over it.

My main complaint to it is the darn things pretty much end up in my pool :-(

Your question did help out my neighbor. They've had an oak suffering
from actinopelte dpp for years and when I saw the pics in that article
it was woohoo!