Sycamore tar spot, where is it?

[Treemoose]

Maybe people oop north have been clearing up their leaves rigorously

[Graham]

Next year I'm going to draw (with a maker pen) round some of the egg clusters on the back of the leaves on some of our sycamores and see if that area goes black come autumn.

 

I'm sure there is some correlation between the eggs and the spots.

 

Be interesting if there is.

[Gnarlyoak]

The black spots are the fungal infection. Nothing to do with aphids.

 

Next year I'm going to draw (with a maker pen) round some of the egg clusters on the back of the leaves on some of our sycamores and see if that area goes black come autumn.

 

I'm sure there is some correlation between the eggs and the spots.

 

I always thought that it was the honeydew (aphid poo) deposits that this fungi grew upon.

[tree monkey]

Maybe people oop north have been clearing up their leaves rigorously

 

nooo its a hard life up north we have to collect and use as roughage in our diets we dont have the southern prosperity:001_tt2:

[Lee Winger]

A mycologist who works for Ipswich borough council told me a few years ago that it is believed that Rhystima actually developed on a man's brain and killed him,how true it is I can't verify, spores were believed to of been inhaled

Edited October 16, 2012 by Lee Winger

[David Humphries]

A mycologist who works for Ipswich borough council told me a few years ago that it is believed that Rhystima actually developed on a man's brain and killed him,how true it is I can't verify

 

Uh oh !!!

 

 

 

 

 

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[Treemoose]

nooo its a hard life up north we have to collect and use as roughage in our diets we dont have the southern prosperity:001_tt2:

 

Probably goes well with a deep fried marsbar

[Lee Winger]

Uh oh !!!

 

 

 

 

 

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Not buying that one then David? I must admit I was taken aback when told the information, the thing is this guy really know his onions, he told me it was in a recent journal, I can't find anything to back it up, he was adamant it was ''tar spot''

[David Humphries]

Not buying that one then David? I must admit I was taken aback when told the information, the thing is this guy really know his onions, he told me it was in a recent journal, I can't find anything to back it up, he was adamant it was ''tar spot''

 

Not doubting Lee, imagine it may very well be an issue us arbs are open to more than perhaps we would be comfortable with.

 

Particularly those of our ranks that spend a worrying amount of time down at pore level during sporulation, just to get a context set of shots.

 

 

 

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[slack ma girdle]

It is rampant here in west Wales.