Bronze leaf disease

[christineguptill]

Hi there - I'm brand new to this forum. We have poplars, and one has had bronze leaf disease. Today my husband cut out the diseased branches, which took up several feet of the lower portion of the foliage. They had to be cut back essentially to the trunk to remove the diseased branches. I'm wondering if those branches will grow back?

 

Many thanks -

 

Christine.

[daltontrees]

Where is this tree? If by bronze leaf disease you mean   Apioplagiostoma populi, there is no information on this for the UK that I know of. So if you're in the UK you should probably be checking your diagnosis and then informing Forestry Research.

[Gary Prentice]

Have you any photos?

And are you in the UK or elsewhere.

 

regarding regrowth, you'll probably get some epicormic shoots, but these will be dissimilar to the original branches and will grow vertically, parallel with the stem.