Q: We have a cherry plum tree with purple foliage, pink flowers in April and small reddish fruit in July. The leaves look ...

Knotty tree fungus strikes cherry, plum trees in Augusta City officials plan to remove 14 infected cherry trees at Monument Park, off Memorial Circle. Posted June 28, 2020 Updated June 29, 2020 ...

While the fungus primarily attacks cherry and plum trees, it can also infect apricots, peaches and any tree or shrub in the Prunus species, including ornamental cherry species.

Plum pocket results in formation of distorted, light green, bladder-shaped fruit. Although these diseases become visible on our peach trees in the spring, the treatment window is fall, after leaf ...

A: Your plum tree has black knot fungus. At this point, there is nothing you can do about it except to prune out the affected limbs. This may remove most of the tree, and it likely won’t produce ...

M.H. Dark, rough swellings on (mainly) plum and cherry trees signify the presence of black knot, a fungus disease. In spring, the knots form spores that spread to infect young growth in wet weather.

Heavy infestations of aphids can also slow tree growth, reduce fruit size and reduce fruit sugar content. The leaf curl plum aphid overwinters as eggs deposited near the base of buds.

Early in spring this year I purchased a plum tree (bare root) which had grown to perfection, a month ago, I noticed a light invasion of tiny black insects. These were treated and all was well. It ...

Once the tree is infected, the fungus can spread to other parts of the tree and new galls will form. Knots will continue to expand until they girdle the branch and it dies.

If you have cherry or plum trees, now's a good time to check for a disease called black knot fungus. The fungus can go unnoticed with summer foliage but is apparent when trees are winter-bare.