is this phytophthera?

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Guy,

So on what Leg does your hypothesis on one of the many other pathogens including Phytophthora to be responsable for the black oozing stand on then ?

 

Gerrit, no such hypothesis was offered. Not enough evidence to go on, because the infection has not been examined. Not with hand lens, or the mighty microscope, or even the unaided eye.

 

Why not remove the dead material and LOOK?

 

Is "barrier" some sort of red flag? If so is there a politically correct synonym, to avoid traipsing in a minefield??