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Chrysomyxa ledi var. rhododendri is a plant pathogen responsible for the disease spruce needle rust. It is present in European mountains, and especially in Switzerland in Grisons and Ticino between 1,000 and 2,000 metres.
For most home owners, spruce needle rust is mostly a cosmetic disease and methods of control are usually unnecessary. In commercial industries, however, the adverse effect of the fungus on the trees may warrant treatment applications. Infected needles yellow and eventually fall, which can cause the tree to become thin-crowned and unmarketable. [6]
Picea abies, the Norway spruce [2] or European spruce, [3] is a species of spruce native to Northern, Central and Eastern Europe. [ 4 ] It has branchlets that typically hang downwards, and the largest cones of any spruce , 9–17 cm long.
Many pine trees turn yellow this time of year because of normal “needle drop” on the inside branches.
Chrysomyxa abietis, or spruce needle rust, is a species of rust fungi in the Coleosporiaceae family that is native to eastern Europe (including Siberia) and northern Asia. [2] It was introduced to Australia , New Zealand and the United States .
The yellow-headed spruce sawfly, Pikonema alaskensis, is widely known in the northern United States and Canada as a destructive pest of spruce. [1] It attacks white, black, Norway, and Colorado blue spruces. The larvae at first prefer new foliage, but after becoming about half-grown, old needles are included in their diet too.
Needles turn yellow or brown or drop off completely most often due to improper watering (too much or too little), drafts, or low light. You can trim off the brown branches with pruners, but be ...
Abies alba, the European silver fir or silver fir, [3] is a fir native to the mountains of Europe, from the Pyrenees north to Normandy, east to the Alps and the Carpathians, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, and south to Italy, Bulgaria, Kosovo, Albania and northern Greece.