Return to the Botany Forum
| Post a Follow-Up
canker
| | |
Posted by davidfromdetroit (My Page) on Mon, Jul 28, 08 at 19:54
| I have a recently purchased dwarf gardenia that has a canker problem. I am curious, can the canker that infects a gardenia infect other species of plants or trees, or would it only spread to other gardenias? |
Follow-Up Postings:
RE: canker
| | |
| Do you know if the canker is caused from a pathogen or nonbiotic source? Anita |
RE: canker
| | |
| I believe that gardenias are infected with the canker fungus Phomopsis gardeniae. This particular strain of the fungus will not affect other genera. But Anita makes a good point. Canker-like lesions could be created by abiotic influences, as well. |
|
|
|
|
