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Old 07-04-2008, 11:33 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Nick Maclaren Nick Maclaren is offline
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Default Blackcurrant bush?


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Alan Johnson writes:
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| There are some orange spots on one or two parts; they
| look like some kind of fungus. Does anybody know what they are and what
| i should do?

Orange spots are probably coral spot - which is, indeed, a fungus.
It infects dead wood within weeks in warm damp conditions, but
rarely causes any trouble to living plants.

Note that the "traditional wisdom" is that it can cause die-back,
but it is also possible that all of the cases of where it appears
to do so are where something else is causing the die-back and it
is infecting the dead wood immediately afterwards. Anyway, most
old shrubs have it on at least some of their dead branches, and
they don't die back.

I ignore it.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.