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Cedar-apple rust requires a nearby juniper plant to carry out its full life cycle. The common Eastern redcedar, Juniperus virginiana, is usually the second host of the disease.
These rust fungi spend a portion of their life cycle on rosaceous hosts, such as apple and flowering crab, and another portion on species of Juniperus, mainly eastern red cedar. All winter long ...
Cedar hawthorn rust alternate hosts are junipers (primarily Eastern red cedar) and hawthorn, apple, crabapple, serviceberry, quince, and pear. The symptoms of the deciduous plants are leaf spots ...
Juniper- and cedar-apple rust are odd diseases that pass themselves back and forth between evergreens and apple-family plants. On evergreens, the disease looks like orange blobs.
Q: My eastern red cedar has a type of pod growing on several of the stems. This growth occurs in much smaller numbers on some of the other trees. This ...
Eastern red cedar or Juniperus virginiana is not a true cedar. ... One other way to identify a red cedar is the presence cedar-apple rust and bagworms that commonly infest/infect eastern red cedars.
With our recent rainy weather, you may have noticed bright orange orbs with gelatinous tendrils on our native eastern red cedar and ornamental cedars (Juniperus spp.). These are the galls of the cedar ...
Cedar Apple Rust is a common landscape disease that does little harm to our Eastern red cedars but can play havoc in the home orchard. Skip to Article Set weather ...
The eastern red cedar is also the alternate host for cedar apple rust, a fungal disease. On the plus side, it is a very adaptable species and can survive really tough conditions. It also provides food ...
CEDAR APPLE RUST. Scientific name: Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae is the name of the fungal pathogen that involves two tree species and produces galls on Eastern red cedar (juniper ...
Cedar apple rust is the culprit. My apple trees are apparently doomed. The Shenandoah Valley is famous for apple trees. It is also famous (unfortunately, in my opinion), for wild cedar trees. The ...
Have you noticed the orange globs on some of the Eastern red cedar trees in the Skiatook area? It’s caused by a fungus known as cedar-apple rust, also called juniper-apple rust, since red cedars ...