Cedar-apple rust is a fungal disease that requires both a Rosaceaous host (such as apple) and a cedar host (such as Eastern red cedar). On apples, bright orange-yellow lesions are first visible after ...

April showers bring May flowers…and also the blooms of cedar apple rust. As you drive around the county, keep your eyes peeled for the distinctive orange fruiting bodies of cedar apple rust that can ...

With our recent rainy weather, you may have noticed bright orange orbs with gelatinous tendrils on our native eastern red cedar and ornamental cedars (Juniperus spp.). These are the galls of the cedar ...

Cedar apple rust on Juniperus virginiana (Eastern red cedar). CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Cedar apple rust on Juniperus virginiana (Eastern red cedar). CONTRIBUTED PHOTO After last season’s drought, I know I ...

We all know that old saying, “April showers bring May fungi!” (No? Just me?). All joking aside, you may have noticed that the recent wet spring weather lead many fungi to break dormancy, release ...

Cedar apple rust is a fungal pathogen that gets its name from a life cycle infecting cedar trees, then plants in the Rose family and back again. This year, spring weather conditions promoted the ...

Q: My eastern red cedar has a type of pod growing on several of the stems. This growth occurs in much smaller numbers on some of the other trees. This particular tree appears to be stressed with green ...

Shown here is an intimidating and odd-looking fungal growth attached to a cedar branch. It is called cedar apple rust. The airborne spores growing on the leaves and fruit of an apple tree will infect ...