The cool wet weather we have been experiencing encouraged a number of tree diseases, including cytospora canker of spruce trees. Cytospora canker is a fungus that primarily attacks blue and Norway ...

Cytospora creates a telltale pinkish or orange lesion on the bark of the trunk or the branches. This canker is particularly visible when the bark is wet. (The symptoms are different on spruce.) ...

What is this and will it kill my tree? A: This is a common fungal disease for blue spruce trees called cytospora canker. It usually happens to trees that are 15 years old or older. If the tree is ...

There aren’t any sprays that can solve the problem once borers are in a tree, and attempts to dig out a borer can cause damage and leave access into the tree for diseases like Cytospora canker ...

Cytospora canker, or Valsa canker, the fungal cause of gummosis, affects stone fruit trees such as apricot, cherry, peach and plum. Cytospora infection is distinguishable from insect damage and ...

Your description suggests that your Colorado blue spruce (Picea pungens ‘Glauca’) is suffering from cytospora canker, a disease caused by a fungus that attacks spruces, hemlocks, firs and larches.

This hard-to-pronounce fungus causes a disease called cytospora canker, which leaves behind a distinct calling card in orchards. The fungus spreads through spores and enters trees through wounds ...

When entire lower branches on a spruce have died, the problem is more likely to be cytospora canker, Yiesla said. This fungus lives under the bark and destroys the vessels that carry water and ...

Scattered dead branches at the base of the tree could be due to Cytospora canker. Leaking, sticky white resin can be a symptom near affected canker areas. Select pruning, and cleaning of pruning ...

Particularly, the cytospora canker, or perennial canker, commonly causes fungal bleeding in stone fruited trees such as apricot, cherry, peach, and plum. This infection can be distinguished from ...

Cytospora creates a telltale pinkish or orange lesion on the bark of the trunk or the branches. This canker is particularly visible when the bark is wet. (The symptoms are different on spruce.) ...