Thread: The Blob is on My Plum Tree
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Old 14-07-2009, 09:09 PM posted to rec.gardens
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Default The Blob is on My Plum Tree
On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:00:11 -0500, Bert Byfield
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This is a link to some pictures of "The Blob" (dark brown stuff wrapped
around the branches, about a hundred of them, three or four inches
long) which has attached itself all over my Italian Prune tree in
upstate New York. Does anyone know what this is and what I should do to
it?

http://caravelabooks.com/plumcrud/


Looks like black knot, a fungus.

http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/pp/notes/oldnotes/fd4.htm

Boron
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