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PHOTO OF THE WEEK, Mystery Disease?
Returning home from our Friday trip to town, we spotted this strange
apparition in a tree along the road..... I need some help identifying it. js -- PHOTO OF THE WEEK: http://schmidling.com/pow.htm Astronomy, Beer, Cheese, Fiber,Gems, Sausage,Silver http://schmidling.com |
PHOTO OF THE WEEK, Mystery Disease?
My state(NC) does not allow the importation of gooseberries or currents
because they carry a fungal disease that damages White Pines. I'm not sure which fungus or what the damage may be. Try Google White Pine disease + currents. Steve "Jack Schmidling" wrote in message ... Returning home from our Friday trip to town, we spotted this strange apparition in a tree along the road..... I need some help identifying it. js -- PHOTO OF THE WEEK: http://schmidling.com/pow.htm Astronomy, Beer, Cheese, Fiber,Gems, Sausage,Silver http://schmidling.com |
PHOTO OF THE WEEK, Mystery Disease?
Steve Peek wrote:
My state(NC) does not allow the importation of gooseberries or currents because they carry a fungal disease that damages White Pines. I'm not sure which fungus or what the damage may be. Try Google White Pine disease + currents. Steve "Jack Schmidling" wrote in message ... Returning home from our Friday trip to town, we spotted this strange apparition in a tree along the road..... I need some help identifying it. js -- PHOTO OF THE WEEK: http://schmidling.com/pow.htm Astronomy, Beer, Cheese, Fiber,Gems, Sausage,Silver http://schmidling.com White pine blister rust is the disease and gooseberry is the alternate host. -- Rick Fargo, ND N 46°53'251" W 096°48'279" Remember the USS Liberty http://www.ussliberty.org/ ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
PHOTO OF THE WEEK, Mystery Disease?
Jack Schmidling wrote:
Returning home from our Friday trip to town, we spotted this strange apparition in a tree along the road..... I need some help identifying it. Your wording suggests that it appeared suddenly (if it got that big without you noticing it earlier). My guess is somebody cut down a diseased tree or tree-limb and the wind (or kids) put it there. We have incidents of corn cobs or ears of corn in trees, but that is the doing of the thieving squirrels. I'll be interested to know what the tree thing turns out to be. -- Requiescas in pace o email Two identifying characteristics of System Administrators: Ex turpi causa non oritur actio Infallibility, and the ability to learn from their mistakes. Eppure si rinfresca ICBM Targeting Information: http://tinyurl.com/4sqczs |
PHOTO OF THE WEEK, Mystery Disease?
On Aug 12, 10:05*am, Jack Schmidling wrote:
Returning home from our Friday trip to town, we spotted this strange apparition in a tree along the road..... It is what is known as a 'witch's broom.' They occur rather frequently on conifers. They can be caused by a virus or some other infectious agent or injury , but sometimes they happen spontaneously as a result of mutation. There is one on a Norway Spruce near my office. Some of the more interesting ones become valuable cultivars when an enterprising arborist spots them and clones them. J. Del Col |
PHOTO OF THE WEEK, Mystery Disease?
On Aug 12, 10:05*am, Jack Schmidling wrote:
Returning home from our Friday trip to town, we spotted this strange apparition in a tree along the road..... I need some help identifying it. One point of clarification. As I said in an earlier reply, it's a 'witch's broom.' They are all caused by a mutation in a branch bud. Nobody is sure what triggers the mutation; viruses, injury and spontaneous mutation have all been suggested as possible causes. Pines and spruces seem to be very susceptible to them. An analogy would be 'cresting' in cacti. BTW, White Pine Blister Rust doesn't look like that. Branches with WPBR just turn brown, wither and die; they don't produce that kind of bushy excresence. J. Del Col |
PHOTO OF THE WEEK, Mystery Disease?
jadel wrote:
On Aug 12, 10:05 am, Jack Schmidling wrote: Returning home from our Friday trip to town, we spotted this strange apparition in a tree along the road..... I need some help identifying it. One point of clarification. As I said in an earlier reply, it's a 'witch's broom.' They are all caused by a mutation in a branch bud. Nobody is sure what triggers the mutation; viruses, injury and spontaneous mutation have all been suggested as possible causes. Pines and spruces seem to be very susceptible to them. An analogy would be 'cresting' in cacti. BTW, White Pine Blister Rust doesn't look like that. Branches with WPBR just turn brown, wither and die; they don't produce that kind of bushy excresence. J. Del Col There are rust pustules also -- Rick Fargo, ND N 46°53'251" W 096°48'279" Remember the USS Liberty http://www.ussliberty.org/ ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
PHOTO OF THE WEEK, Mystery Disease?
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, jadel wrote: On Aug 12, 10:05=A0am, Jack Schmidling wrote: Returning home from our Friday trip to town, we spotted this strange apparition in a tree along the road..... It is what is known as a 'witch's broom.' They occur rather frequently on conifers. They can be caused by a virus or some other infectious agent or injury , but sometimes they happen spontaneously as a result of mutation. There is one on a Norway Spruce near my office. Some of the more interesting ones become valuable cultivars when an enterprising arborist spots them and clones them. J. Del Col Yep, many dwarf cultivars have been developed from "witch's brooms." I find that so fascinating. I have a 'Pimoko" Serbian spruce developed from a witches broom. It was a stubby little thing when I got it but without getting much taller than eight inches it's now qutie the tiny shrub, in an outdoor pot with a teency species of cyclamen. Here's my article about it: http://www.paghat.com/pimoko.html photo from the first year I had it; it's a denser rounder mini-shrub now, I should add an update photo. And here's an article on the Miniature Bird's Nest Norway Spruce you mention, one of the more commonly encountered witches brooms in the trade: http://www.paghat.com/birdsnestspruce.html -- visit my temperate gardening website: http://www.paghat.com visit my film reviews website: http://www.weirdwildrealm.com |
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PHOTO OF THE WEEK, Mystery Disease?
On Aug 12, 3:23*pm, (paghat) wrote:
In article , jadel wrote: On Aug 12, 10:05=A0am, Jack Schmidling wrote: Returning home from our Friday trip to town, we spotted this strange apparition in a tree along the road..... It is what is known as a 'witch's broom.' *They occur rather frequently on conifers. *They can be caused by a virus or some other infectious agent or injury , but sometimes they happen spontaneously as a result of mutation. *There is one on a Norway Spruce near my office. Some of the more interesting ones become valuable cultivars when an enterprising arborist spots them and clones them. J. Del Col Yep, many dwarf cultivars have been developed from "witch's brooms." I find that so fascinating. I have a 'Pimoko" Serbian spruce developed from a witches broom. It was a stubby little thing when I got it but without getting much taller than eight inches it's now qutie the tiny shrub, in an outdoor pot with a teency species of cyclamen. Here's my article about it:http://www.paghat.com/pimoko.html photo from the first year I had it; it's a denser rounder mini-shrub now, I should add an update photo. And here's an article on the Miniature Bird's Nest Norway Spruce you mention,.... I have a Bird's Nest Norway. I'm working with it as a bonsai. Over 100 different WB cultivars have come from Norway Spruce alone. J. Del Col |
PHOTO OF THE WEEK, Mystery Disease?
On Aug 12, 3:14*pm, Rick wrote:
jadel wrote: On Aug 12, 10:05 am, Jack Schmidling wrote: Returning home from our Friday trip to town, we spotted this strange apparition in a tree along the road..... I need some help identifying it. One point of clarification. *As I said in an earlier reply, it's a 'witch's broom.' They are all caused by a mutation in a branch bud. Nobody is sure what triggers the mutation; viruses, injury and spontaneous mutation have all been suggested as possible causes. Pines and spruces seem to be very susceptible to them. An analogy would be 'cresting' *in cacti. BTW, White Pine Blister Rust doesn't look like that. *Branches with WPBR just turn brown, wither and die; they don't produce that kind of bushy excresence. J. Del Col There are rust pustules also Yep, nasty-looking stuff. J. Del Col |
PHOTO OF THE WEEK, Mystery Disease?
"jadel" wrote in message ... On Aug 12, 10:05 am, Jack Schmidling wrote: Returning home from our Friday trip to town, we spotted this strange apparition in a tree along the road..... It is what is known as a 'witch's broom.' They occur rather frequently on conifers. They can be caused by a virus or some other infectious agent or injury , but sometimes they happen spontaneously as a result of mutation. There is one on a Norway Spruce near my office. Some of the more interesting ones become valuable cultivars when an enterprising arborist spots them and clones them. J. Del Col ----- can you poas a photo of that? |
PHOTO OF THE WEEK, Mystery Disease?
On Aug 12, 3:23*pm, (paghat) wrote:
In article , jadel wrote: And here's an article on the Miniature Bird's Nest Norway Spruce you mention, ,.... The WB on the tree outside my office isn't a bird's nest WB. It is about five feet long and looks just like a very bushy Christmas tree stuck onto a branch of the huge old spruce. J. Del Col |
PHOTO OF THE WEEK, Mystery Disease?
In article
, jadel wrote: On Aug 12, 3:23=A0pm, (paghat) wrote: In article , jadel wrote: And here's an article on the Miniature Bird's Nest Norway Spruce you mention, ,.... The WB on the tree outside my office isn't a bird's nest WB. It is about five feet long and looks just like a very bushy Christmas tree stuck onto a branch of the huge old spruce. J. Del Col Golly gee, I'd love to see that. -paggers -- visit my temperate gardening website: http://www.paghat.com visit my film reviews website: http://www.weirdwildrealm.com |
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