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Azalea problem
Recently we bought a dwarf azalea to plant in a planter box out the
front. The day after planting it I noticed something curious, an enlarged leaf with a silvery bloom on it looking like a tumour or the result of some virus infection. The end of the leaf was grossly swollen and stiff. I removed it but since then I have spotted and removed about two dozen of these of various sizes doing some damage to the new growth in the process. Do the panel have any suggestions as to what this may be and how best to counter it? Peter -- Add my middle initial to email me. It has become attached to a country |
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"Chris Hogg" wrote in message ... On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 08:20:59 GMT, (Peter Ashby) wrote: Recently we bought a dwarf azalea to plant in a planter box out the front. The day after planting it I noticed something curious, an enlarged leaf with a silvery bloom on it looking like a tumour or the result of some virus infection. The end of the leaf was grossly swollen and stiff. I removed it but since then I have spotted and removed about two dozen of these of various sizes doing some damage to the new growth in the process. Do the panel have any suggestions as to what this may be and how best to counter it? Peter Azalea leaf gals. A fungus disease. Pick off the distorted leaves and bin or burn them. Spray young growth with a copper fungicide, eg bordeaux mixture or similar, or mancozeb. Dithane 459 (?number) available in garden centres and is mancozeb under another name. But you may not have much young growth at this time of year, so do it next year for certain. Camellias suffer from a similar fungus, but in their case the galls are the size of apples! We had one on one of our camellias earlier this year. -- Chris E-mail: christopher[dot]hogg[at]virgin[dot]net Just testing because a message I left for you failed. It was the Lea Gall suggestion. |
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