Questions tagged [fungus]
For questions about growing fungi or curing fungal diseases.
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What is this fungus (slime mold) with dark brown, rodlike vertical clusters and a slimy webbed base?
I live in the Florida panhandle, and I have two 20" flowerpots with two tomato plants in the first pot and a bell pepper and three zucchini plants in the other. They are on a south-facing balcony ...
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What are these random mushrooms in my garden?
I check the garden every day for pests and to water, but seemingly overnight these random mushrooms (or whatever they are) have sprouted up. Is this dangerous? What are they? And why are they there?
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Black spots with white ring around them on Zinnia leaves
We have grown Zinnias in our garden since 3-4 years, In South India . The initial batches were very healthy and robust ,with stunning flowers.
but since the last 1 year or so I have noticed that the ...
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Avocado leaf problem
The leaves on my 1 year old avocado plant are showing some weird almost dusty grey spots near the veins.
The leaves stay like this for a while, then they start to curl inwards/down get really crispy ...
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Ficus decora leaf spots and dead tips
apologies if this question has been already asked elsewhere.
I have some black spots underneath the leaves of my ficus decora, which I presume are a fungal infection (cercospora?) Could someone please ...
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Little indentations on tea plant
I spotted these on 2 new leaves of my camellia sinensis, the other leaves don't have these at all, its inside against a western facing window, watered every 4 days fertilized every 2nd month, I want ...
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White branches on citrus tree, is this normal?
I'm seeing the branches to my citrus tree turn white. When I cut them, it's all dead. Is that normal or is it a fungus or something ? Please refer to the attached photo. It's happening to several ...
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What's wrong with my indoor Areca palm with leaf blight?
I just received a small areca palm (about three feet high) in the mail that has some leaves showing signs of stress. Could someone help me identify the culprit? I'm wondering whether I could address ...
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How effective is a phosphonate treatment for phytophthora dieback?
I found on the Internet that the fungal disease phytophthora dieback can be treated with phosphonates. I am asking how effective this treatment is. If it's not very effective, is there any other ...
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Salvaging fir tree from armillaria root rot
I am trying to salvage a fir tree from armillaria root rot. This would be its 3rd year of visible disease damage.
It says here: "If your conifer is dying from evergreen root rot, shovel the moist ...
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Pest identification on Fuyu Persimmon tree
My persimmon tree has been struggling for 2 seasons in the CA Bay Area. The leaves have been turning brown at the tips, eventually turning black and falling off. I’ve tried some copper fungicide ...
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Mosaic virus on pothos/hoya plant? Please help
My pothos plant has really strange yellowing/speckling on the leaves (the leaves are yellowing with speckles of green). I have had a thrips problem recently and am concerned the pothos got the virus ...
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Mango leaf disease
My mango plant has various symptoms so I'm not able to pinpoint the disease. Is it just a result of anthracnose or is it a lesser problem?
I sprayed some Bonide copper fungicide. Is there a better ...
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Yellow/Black Spots on Tomato Leaves
I've grown a tomato plant in a Home Depot bucket for about 2 months now. It is an heirloom species called Dwarf Almadine. Recently, the weather has been really damp (mushrooms popping up from the ...
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Palm leaves turning brown
I have two indoor palm plants
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I water it adequately and keep it inside room with adequate bright light not direct sunlight, but the leaves are turning yellow and some places I see rusting ...
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Which disease could be turning the leaves on my tomato plants BLUE?
The leaves are very dry (though the plants were watered regularly and consistenly), have this bluish tint and those brown spots. Googled, but found nothing, which is weird. What could this be?
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What is this disease on my Christmas Palm, and how do I treat it?
I bought this Christmas Palm 10 weeks ago, and it was healthy and full, with no signs of disease. I'm in Ft. Lauderdale, zone 10. I placed the palm on my sometimes windy, south-facing balcony. I ...
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Black spots on my ruby ficus elastica
Does anyone know what these black spots on my ficus are and how to treat? I had to put it out in the sun when my house was being painted, could it be sunburn? Or maybe a fungus?
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Peach disease identification
Peach Tree is Sick 😞
My peach tree is suffering from curling leaves.
The issue started last year and persists.
This is a young tree and it only produced 3 fruits last season.
I suspected it's a ...
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White web or fungus like sutff under sugar maple tree bark - peeling bark
I started to notice some white web or soft fungus type stuff around crevasses of my maple tree's trunk bark. I didnt make much of it until I clipped off some of the bark, there was more of it, and ...
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Can I remove mold from moss with anti fungal?
I had some java moss growing in a closed box, doing well. But I noticed white stringy growth that I thought was fungus since it doesn't get any direct sun.
I sprinkled some anti fungal made of ...
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What’s wrong with my potted tree?
This is my first tree and I got it in December. It was doing well initially, but these last couple of weeks have been difficult. The tree is wilting (see attached) and there is almost a dust-like dark ...
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What's wrong with these carmen peppers?
I found a brown soggy spot on the middle of a carmen pepper in my garden and figured it got damaged somehow and was rotting. But today I found another on the same plant. A quick, uneducated internet ...
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Help - Outdoor Spearmint Has Fungus?
the spearmint plants on my balcony seem to be suffering from some kind of ailment. They are covered in black/brown/white spots. I water them several times a week as they get a lot of direct sunlight.
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New Fig Tree Leaves Dying
Our fig trees budded and new leaves emerged, but after about a week the edges turned brown and the leaves have curled up and died. Only two leaves are left on one of the trees, though new buds are ...
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Hollyhock deteriorating immediately after blooming
I live in Denver, CO and last year I planted 2 Hollyhock plants in my backyard. The plants were about 1 foot tall when I put them in the ground and they are in a spot where they get full sun/plenty ...
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Can Copper Fungicide be used on an apple tree with fruit already growing?
I was wondering if its possible to cover the growing apples with a plastic bag while I spray the leaves with this Copper Fungicide. I read somewhere that your not supposed to spray the Copper ...
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Small powdery white around bottom of stems of a Peace Lily, and some brown lesions on some of the leaves
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I recently noticed some small powdery white regions around the bottom of some of the stems on my peace lily, below are some examples:
They become less prominent when wet, but are visible ...
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Black Growth on Eucalyptus Seedlings (E. gunnii)
I have a number of eucalyptus seedling that are still quite small (from one to five centimeters). After bringing the ones I had outside during the summer back indoors most of them got a black fungus ...
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What’s this raspberry fungus?
I have a white powder/fungus showing up on my raspberries and actually my blackberries too.
Does anyone know what this is and how to treat it if necessary? My 18 month old eats off of this so non ...
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Disease on Thuja Occidentalis
In our garden there are two northern white-cedars (thuja occidentalis) that have gotten a strange light-greenish area on the base of their stem (see the image enclosed). The infected species are in ...
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What is wrong with pedilanthus?
I live in Uttar Pradesh, India and I have planted pedilanthus in my vertical garden. They are in bright indirect sunlight. Their tips are turning pink and there is also some white fungus.
What should ...
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does fruit tree absorb pesticide and fungicide from the root level and will persist inside the fruit it produce? (specifically lime and date trees)
The specific situation is where there are two trees -- one lime and another date tree plant among the grass in the backyard where the grass area will get sprayed with conventional pesticide and ...
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can you use blight spray on all edible and ornamental trees, shrubs and bushes
At first, it was just my pear trees, then it seems everything has it. It looks like brown spots that turn the leaves yellow. But there are holes and half eaten leaves also. Some leaves such as my ...
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Holes in leaves and black specks on lower leaves
I tried adding pictures but it isn't working. I have young zinnia plants that I started from seed about two months ago. They're just barely coming up on the point where they'll flower but suddenly I ...
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White fungus on tree
How to save a peepal tree ("Sacred Fig" or "Bodhi Tree") from white fungus growth on its trunk. Is it safe for the tree to remove the extra growth. What medication or treatment ...
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Koleria stem is hardening from bottom eventually killing whole plant
I am very upset for so long time. Some of my kohlerias die before even had the chance to buildup buds. Very stall in growth. Some doing well, still stalling in growth though. Starts from direct below ...
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What is this thing on the mint plant leaves?
I have a pepper mint plant that I grow using growth light in a windowsill. Recently there has ben some wierd thing on the leaves that I don't know what is. Is this an infection? Is it fungii? Is it ...
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Hydroponics Tomato plants dying
It’s my first time growing anything and I decided to try growing Tiny Tim tomatoes in an Idoo 10 pod hydroponics system. I have been adding the nutrients that came with the system and have been deep ...
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What is this brown spot in my cherry leaf?
I have a cherry fruit tree that I don't know the species name, but in my country it's called Japanese Cherry.
Some of my cherry's leaves have brown spots, it looks like a fungus but also looks like ...
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Lilac disease/fungus diagnosis
I have 5 Syringa meyeri cvs all with leaves curling upwards, in on themselves also. yellow with brown/black edges and spots on the leaves. Is this just drought stress or something more serious. If ...
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What is this fungus in my raised bed garden?
I live on the Gulf Coast. Torrential 1/2 hour rainfalls each day - dropping 2"-3" of rain, then sunny and 80-100% humidity, heat index 100-105F for past 2 weeks. Spores are beginning to ...
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Brown tips on young Norway Spruce
Do you think I should treat these young Norway Spruce trees for a fungus or is this browning just from winter or transplant stress?
We live in Minnesota so we have long winters. We planted a long row ...
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Spots on Shady Lady leaves - steps to improve
I recently had a Shady Lady tree, (Bucida buceras) the black olive tree), installed in my yard. This was the biggest and best-looking tree at the nursery but I am now realizing why it might have been ...
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White covering on leaves of tulsi (holy basil) in winters
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Facing the same problem in 3 of my 4 tulsi plants
Looks like a fungal infection to me, please advice. Happening in winters. It appears to have spread to 2 plants from one. Other non-tulsi ...
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What would cause cherry tree leaves to dry from middle outward?
I have a 3-year-old cherry tree which is losing its leaves early this year. They appear to be drying and wilting from the middle (large vein) outward. What would cause this?
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Pea plants- slug damage or something I did?
Can slug damage cause the bottom of pea stalks to die? All the bottom leaves are going black and crispy and falling off. I’ve seen another post where it said root rot but the planter they are in has ...
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Brown spots with black edges on tomato leaves
I've got some brown spots with black edges on my tomatoes leaves - looking at other questions on this site with similar problems, none of them look quite right to me. I've attached pictures below.
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What’s wrong with my snake plant leaves?
I recently discovered the tip of my snake plant had turned blackish and cut off from the rest of the plant, basically dead, the dead part feels moist and floppy.
I don’t know what’s wrong if I’m under ...
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Brown spots on avocado tree leaves
I transplanted my 7 years old avocado tree two months ago and since then it's condition continually worsened. First, the leaves lost turgor for a few weeks and I thought that this was over. ...
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