So i was outside yesterday. "which was a beautiful
day to be outside " And i noticed little tiny black
spots on my bourganvillea's leaves. Then i started
looking around. It was on a dwarf orange tree, a few
maples, a nishiki willow and a few other plants. The
tree with the most was a nishiki willow. When you rub
it you can sometimes chip it off like scale, but most
of the time it smudges like tar. and then you have to
rub it off the leaf. I notice no apparant damage from
it. The majority of it is on the tops of leaves,
although i did notice some on the undersides of leaves
also. Unlike scale it is not always circular or oval
but seems to vary between cirles and ovals. Some
leaves had it bad tons of clumps and colonies of it.
But when scraping it off i saw no damage. It is shiny
and black like tar. It also clumps into raised forms
on the edge of leaves. Very strange. Anyone know if
this sounds like tar spot or scale or something else??

Thanks
Ben Griffin

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