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JUNIPERS
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Some Common Diseases |
Some Common Insects and Insect-related |
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Blue to green to yellow tip foliage, ground covers, shrubs,
trees (including columnar forms) blueberry like fruit (used
to flavor gin), moist, well-drained soils. |
Phomopsis
Twig Blight
Cedar rust (Susceptible varieties)
Winter injury
Root rot
Wood rot |
Mites
Scale |
LARCH
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Some Common Diseases |
Some Common Insects and Insect-related |
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Moist, well-drained acidic sois.
Sun, American & European species, European better tree,
weeping & non weeping forms, 70 to 75 feet tall. |
Root rot
Canker
Chlorosis
Wood rot |
Cottony Maple Scale |
LILAC
| Selection Info |
Some Common Diseases |
Some Common Insects and Insect-related |
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Sun, moist well-drained soils, nongrafted varieties need
regular pruning to maintain plant health, need modified pruning
on grafted variety, white to purplish flowers in June (shrubs),
tree blooms in June, flowers are & have pleasant odor. |
Canker
Powdery Mildew
Root rot
Botrytis Blight
Bacterial Blight
Leaf spot
Wood rot |
Borer
Scale |
LINDEN
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Some Common Diseases |
Some Common Insects and Insect-related |
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American 60 - 80 feet tall & little leaf 30 - 70 feet
tall.
Little leaf better (60+ feet variety), likes moist well drained
rich soils, tollerates, pollution, 30 to 70 feet tall. |
Anthracnose
Scorch
Canker
Verticillium wilt
Wood rot
Root rot |
Aphids
Plant bug |
MAGNOLIA
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Some Common Diseases |
Some Common Insects and Insect-related |
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Trees - Low branching slightly. Moist, acid, organic soils.
Tolerates light shade, 20 - 30 feet tall.
Light pink flowers.
Shrubs - white flowers, 15 - 20 feet tall.
Not all magnolias hardy inNorthern Illinois. |
Canker
Verticillium wilt
Scorch
Chlorosis
Wet wood
Wood rot
Root rot |
Magnolia scale
Tulip tree scale |
MAPLE
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Some Common Diseases |
Some Common Insects and Insect-related |
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Norway - Tolerates dry soil,
40 - 90 feet tall.
Crimson King (Dark purple foliage) schwedler (purplish green
foliage)
Columnar varieties
Japanese - wide range uses, 15 - 25 feet tall.
Red - moist or dry acidic soils 40 - 60 feet tall.
Green (Gold fall color) & red foliage, cultivars, many
cultivars include columnar silver - Fast grower, weak wood
tolerates wide range of growing conditions, 50 - 120 feet
tall.
Sugar - tolerates light shade, forest tree, moist well-drained
soils, 60 - 120 feet tall.
Boxelder - weak wooded, short lived weedy tree, gets boxelder
bug. |
Anthracnose
Sooty mold
Verticillium wilt
Scorch
Chlorosis
Canker
Wetwood
Chemical injury
Wood rot
Root rot |
Scale - Cottony - Leucanium - Oystershell
Aphids
Leaf Miner
Leaf Hopper
Flat headed apple borer
Leaf galls
Aerified mites |
OAK
| Selection Info |
Some Common Diseases |
Some Common Insects and Insect-related |
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Burr - difficult to transplant, tolerates wide range of growing
conditions, 70 - 100 feet tall.
Pin - fastest frowing & easiest to transplant 60 - 100
feet tall.
Reds (pointed leaves) very prone decay and wilt
White (rounded lobes) resistant to decay and wilt |
Oak Wilt
Wet wood
Anthracnose
Canker (bacterial and fungal)
Root rot
Wood rot
Leaf spot
Chlorosis
Scorch
Powdery Mildew
Leaf Blister |
Leaf Miner
Succulent Oak Gall
Scale - Oyster - Leucanium
Aphids
Wood Borers (feeds on to rotting wood)
Gypsy Moth
Tussock Moth |
PINE
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Some Common Diseases |
Some Common Insects and Insect-related |
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Eastern White - moist well - drained slightly acidic soil,
50 - 150 feet tall.
Environmental conditions
Reason most die in ill.
Scotch - over planted, 30 - 90 feet tall.
Austrian - over planted, 50 - 100 feet tall.
Red - tolerates abused soils, 50- 125 feet tall.
Mugo - shrub up to 35 feet by 35 feet. |
Sooty mold
Pine Wilt nematodes (especially Scotch)
Wood rot
Root rot
Canker
Rust
Needle diseases
-Blight
-Cast
-Sphaeropsis (diplodia)
-Tip blight (bird)
-Yellowbelly
-Sapsucker |
Zimmerman Pine Moth
Mites
Pine Sawfly
Leucanium Scale
Pine Needle Scale
Pine Bark Adelgid
Sawyer Beetles
Shoot Moths
Pine Tip Moth
Aphids |
PURPLE LEAF PLUM
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Some Common Diseases |
Some Common Insects and Insect-related |
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Short lived fast growing tree, 15 - 30 feet tall.
Sand cherry is the shrub 7 - 10 feet tall. |
Verticillium wilt
Canker
Root rot
Wood rot
Black knot
Winter injury
Bacterial spot
Blossom and Twig Blight
Leaf curl
Winter injury |
Peach Tree Borer
Aphids
Eastern Tent Caterpillar |
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