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tree disease and cure?
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Hello all,
I am brand new here and believe my tree has a disease... I have inherited the tree when i bought the house last year... i don't know what type of tree it is, it now has black spots all over the bark and undersides of all the branches (attached pic's) the leaves look as though they are deteriorating around the edges and the tree is loosing leaves... I am in the north east UK. Can anyone tell me what type of tree this is, if this is a disease what type, and is there a cure...? Any help/advice would be very much appreciated... Thanks legepe |
tree disease and cure?
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Hello all, I am brand new here and believe my tree has a disease... I have inherited the tree when i bought the house last year... i don't know what type of tree it is, it now has black spots all over the bark and undersides of all the branches (attached pic's) the leaves look as though they are deteriorating around the edges and the tree is loosing leaves... I am in the north east UK. Can anyone tell me what type of tree this is, if this is a disease what type, and is there a cure...? Any help/advice would be very much appreciated... Thanks legepe +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ Filename: IMAG01.jpg | Download: http://www.gardenbanter.co.uk/attachment.php?attachmentid=15098| Filename: IMAG02.jpg | Download: http://www.gardenbanter.co.uk/attachment.php?attachmentid=15099| +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ Looks like a bad case of scale insect to me, there are various cures. Check goggle images for a match. D |
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tree disease and cure?
legepe said:
Hello all, I am brand new here and believe my tree has a disease... I have inherited the tree when i bought the house last year... i don't know what type of tree it is, it now has black spots all over the bark and undersides of all the branches (attached pic's) the leaves look as though they are deteriorating around the edges and the tree is loosing leaves... I am in the north east UK. Can anyone tell me what type of tree this is, if this is a disease what type, and is there a cure...? It looks like a variegated box elder tree (possibly Acer negundo 'Flamingo'), with a serious infestation of scale insect. Any help/advice would be very much appreciated... Thanks legepe +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Filename: IMAG01.jpg | |Download: http://www.gardenbanter.co.uk/attachment.php attachmentid=15098| |Filename: IMAG02.jpg | |Download: http://www.gardenbanter.co.uk/attachment.php? attachmentid=15099| +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- Pat in Plymouth MI "Yes, swooping is bad." email valid but not regularly monitored |
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I agree that it has a bad infestation of scale insect. Scale insects have a hard covering on them which protects them from insecticides. So you will have to scrape them off and then spray the tree with insecticide (provado is generally recommended), to try and get the juveniles which have not got the hard covering yet. Acers can be a bit fickle. You may yet lose it. I've lost a few over the years, though Acer negundo is rather more robust than japanese maples, which are the ones more easily lost. |
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