This is strange

[Gardiners Tree Surgery]

Any body got any ideas what's going on with these leaves

[Steve Bullman]

bit more background perhaps?

[Joe Newton]

Looks like Elaeagnus x Ebbingei.

 

Nothing wrong with the leaf. Normally very dusty. Be careful trimming.

 

Of course I might be wrong, it's been a while since I topped one..,

[Joe Newton]

Looks like Elaeagnus x Ebbingei.

 

Nothing wrong with the leaf. Normally very dusty. Be careful trimming.

 

Of course I might be wrong, it's been a while since I topped one..,

 

 

For gods sake, I tried to ID a pic from a thumbnail.

 

Ignore me, I'm drinking.

[daltontrees]

Any body got any ideas what's going on with these leaves

 

Leaf albinism.

[Peasgood]

My uderstanding of such things:

Leaves are normally green, this is due to the chlorophyll within them.

Sometimes a bud can mutate naturally and sometimes that mutation can result in a "sport" that contains no chlorophyll and therefore appears white. Certain sports with this characteristic are propagated and grafted onto "normal" rootstocks to create an ornamental tree. A good example of this could be the variegated sycamores/maples.

Variegated leaves are only partially chlorophyll free, hence the stripiness of them. Anything completely white will never survive as a single tree because of the plants need to use chlorophyll to photosynthesise. They can survive on plants that also have normal green leaves on other branches and draw off their energy resources.

 

These sports are often produced as a result of damage of some kind, usually physical.

[daltontrees]

My uderstanding of such things:

Leaves are normally green, this is due to the chlorophyll within them.

Sometimes a bud can mutate naturally and sometimes that mutation can result in a "sport" that contains no chlorophyll and therefore appears white. Certain sports with this characteristic are propagated and grafted onto "normal" rootstocks to create an ornamental tree. A good example of this could be the variegated sycamores/maples.

Variegated leaves are only partially chlorophyll free, hence the stripiness of them. Anything completely white will never survive as a single tree because of the plants need to use chlorophyll to photosynthesise. They can survive on plants that also have normal green leaves on other branches and draw off their energy resources.

 

These sports are often produced as a result of damage of some kind, usually physical.

 

A good explanation, this is known as 'leaf albinism' for short. Like all albinisms in plants and animals, it is an absence of usual pigments.

[daltontrees]

Meant to say, I see this now and again in Privet.