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ARBORVITAE
| Selection Info |
Some Common Diseases |
Some Common Insects and Insect-related |
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Shrubs & trees, yellow foliage, variety often used for
screening, "cones," 18 to 35 feet tall.
Moist well-drained soil. |
Cankers
Drowning
Scorch
Winter Injury |
Mites
Bagworms |
ALDER
| Selection Info |
Some Common Diseases |
Some Common Insects and Insect-related |
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Tolerates moist shady conditions.
"Cones"
40+ feet tall. |
Wood rot
Canker-die back
Catkin deformity-leaf spot |
Woolly Alder Aphid
Leaf Miner |
ASH
| Selection Info |
Some Common Diseases |
Some Common Insects and Insect-related |
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Tolerates wide range of growing conditions, green - white
& blue species, 50+ feet tall. |
Verticillium wilt
Canker
Leaf spots including:
anthracnose
Ash ring spot
Root rot
Wood rot
Collar rot |
Ash border
Aphids
Flower Gall of Ash
Plant Bug
Cotton Maple Scale (male trees only)
Emerald Ash Borer |
BARBERRY
| Selection Info |
Some Common Diseases |
Some Common Insects and Insect-related |
| Green & purple variety, thorns,
often used as hedge. |
Verticillium wilt
Canker |
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BIRCH
| Selection Info |
Some Common Diseases |
Some Common Insects and Insect-related |
| Like cool, moist acidic soils. White -grey-
paper - canoe - river species. Buy resistant variety. (Heritage
is creamy white, white spire is white, both hybrids of river)
river is borer resistant, depending on species - 40 to 120
feet tall possible. |
Chlorosis
Root rot
Canker
Scorch |
Leaf Miner
Bronze Birch Borer
Scale
Sapsucker damage |
BUCKEYE AND HORSECHESTNUT
| Selection Info |
Some Common Diseases |
Some Common Insects and Insect-related |
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"Haystack trees" - Branches low to ground, moist
well-drained soils.
"Nut is toxic," 40 to 100 feet tall. |
Leaf Blotch
Scorch
Canker
Wood rot |
Leaf Miner |
CONTONEASTER
| Selection Info |
Some Common Diseases |
Some Common Insects and Insect-related |
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Decidouos to semi-evergreen, ground covers to medium tall
shrubs, arching forms. |
Fire Blight
Canker
Root rot
Winter kill |
Spider Mites
Leaf Crumpler |
CRABAPPLE
| Selection Info |
Some Common Diseases |
Some Common Insects and Insect-related |
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Buy disease-resistant varieties, white, pinl, red flower
varieties, pea to apple size fruit. Green to purple foliage.
Vase-oval-upright-spreading shapes, 8 to 40 feet tall. |
Scab
Rust
Canker
Root rot
Sun scald
Winter injury
Wood rot |
Aphids
Eastern Tent Caterpillar
Fall Web Worm
Scale
Mites |
DOGWOODS
| Selection Info |
Some Common Diseases |
Some Common Insects and Insect-related |
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Red & yellow twigs mostly grown white flowers. Need severe
yearly pruning spot anthracnose to keep healthy. |
Canker
Root rot
Borers
Botrytis Blight |
Scale (oystershell)
Aphids |
DOUGLAS FIR
| Selection Info |
Some Common Diseases |
Some Common Insects and Insect-related |
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Well-drained, moist, rich, acidic soils, sun, high humidity.
40 to 200 feet tall (not true fir)
Blue foliage. |
Needle cast
Needle Blight
Wood rot
Tip Blight
Canker
Root rot |
Woolly Aphid (Alternate host not
required) |
EUONYMUS
| Selection Info |
Some Common Diseases |
Some Common Insects and Insect-related |
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Ground cover, vine, shrubs, small trees. |
Crown Gall
Verticillium Wilt |
Scale-Euonymus
Leucanium
Black Vine Weevil |
GINKGO
| Selection Info |
Some Common Diseases |
Some Common Insects and Insect-related |
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Considered "Pest free," medium grower once established,
smelly fruit - seed used as memory enhancer, male/female trees,
fall color golden, last two weeks and sheds all leaves in
less than 48 hours. Pyramidal forms. 50 to 80 feet tall. |
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Potato Leaf Hopper |
HACKBERRY
| Selection Info |
Some Common Diseases |
Some Common Insects and Insect-related |
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Good street tree - tolerates wide range of growing conditions.
Growth & leaves size, shape, appearance similar to American
elm. 40 to 60 feet tall. |
Witches Broom
Root rot
Wood rot
Island Chlorosis
Canker |
Mites
Cottony Mapple Scale
Leaf Galls |
HAWTHORN
| Selection Info |
Some Common Diseases |
Some Common Insects and Insect-related |
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Most have thorns (thornless cockspur), Washington-cockspur-downy,
white flowers, red grape size fruit. |
Rust
Canker
Root rot
Fire Blight
Leaf Blight
Leaf spot
Wood rot |
Leaf Crumpler
Wooly Aphids
Eastern Tent Caterpillar |
HONEYLOCUST & KENTUCKY COFFEE TREE
| Selection Info |
Some Common Diseases |
Some Common Insects and Insect-related |
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Get thornless/ podless honeylocust, sunburst has yellowish
new growth, tolerates wide range of growing conditions, except
prolong wet soils, 30 to 100 feet tall.
Coffee tree has pods, larger leaves & bigger tree than
honeylocust. |
Canker
Root rot
Wood rot |
Cottony Maple Scale
Pod Midge Gall
Plant Bug
Cankerworm
Mites
Aphids
Mimosa Webworm |
HONEYSUCKLE
| Selection Info |
Some Common Diseases |
Some Common Insects and Insect-related |
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Buy aphid-resistant varieties.
White, pink, red flowers, green to red to purple fruit. |
Canker
Verticillium wilt
Root rot
Powdery Mildew
Leaf Blight |
Honeysuckle Aphid
Leaf Miner |
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