Orange spots on pear tree leaves
Last post 10-07-2012 10:01 AM by Zetaearthling. 3 replies.
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19/06/2012 10:00 AM
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- pwgarden
- Petts Wood
- 28 Jan 2009
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Hello, Can anyone tell me what the below desease is and how to best treat it? It appears on most of the pear trees in my mothers garden?
Many thanks, Rob
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19/06/2012 11:10 AM
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Could be European pear rust. Pruning infected leaves and destroying any fallen leaves near the trees should help.
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09/07/2012 08:19 PM
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- KarenC
- Austria
- 07 Jul 2012
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Hello, my pear tree had the same problem every year and my neighbour told me it is called Gymnosporangium sabinae, a type of fungus that survives only in correlation on both pear tree and juniper bush. Sometimes it helps to prune the juniper early in the year when it develops thickish growth on the stems so the fungus cannot develop. I cut my juniper down this spring, and my pear tree is not showing any sign of the plague this year!
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10/07/2012 10:01 AM
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Great to hear that your pear trees are better! My pear trees also got infected with European pear rust (Gymnosporangium sabinae) but the junipers are located in my neigbour's property so there's really nothing that I can do to them except maybe suggest to my neigbour that she prune her junipers. I guess I'll just have to keep removing infected leaves.
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