Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Winged Elm with Disease





Don't know if the leaf blisters show up in these pictures.They are little pointy eruptions. The tree is large and otherwise seems healthy. Another post office area tree.



3 comments:

Biddie said...

That poor tree does, really, have a problem! It's a shame - I wonder if it's too late to spray it this year .....

Maureen said...

Yuck and they are such cool trees. Is it affecting all the winged elms?

Priscilla said...

I don't thinks so. There was another old one not too far away and it seemed to be clean. It's not Dutch elm disease, I know that, because the trunk would be slimy. This area is under the control of the Stony Brook Foundation and they don't do much more than cut the grass. I almost took my clippers to a huge mass of suckers that were growing on these trees for 3 years or so, but they finally cut them off.