Monday, September 19, 2011

Dalmatian maples

Some sort of fungus seems to be really hard on the maples below a tree canopy; it looks neat though!

2 comments:

  1. I think lots of maples get this, mine in Ontario always got it too. Ugly but didn't seem to hurt the trees much. Latin name, miss European forester?

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  2. So, my best research (aka Google ;-) tells me that it could be 'black tar spot' possibly in the genus "Rhytisma," but would probably require labratory analysis to positively identify. Does this help?

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