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weird red discoloration !

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Description:

no idea, why the area is red. i know these tree/bushes since childhood. i have never noticed something like this (maybe never really paid attention) before. The most of the bush was still normal green, only some little patches were bright orange/red. No galls or something to see, which let suspect animals. I doubt completly fungi. What is that, is it common ? At least i could research the bush myself, but i'm tired, maybe next time , when no one has already given a suggestion!

Habitat:

by a little curch by the city-forest (just a little patch with some trees, between 2 main-streets)

Notes:

Even if i would like it to be this particular fungi.i doubt at the possibility of the disease "tip blight", caused by the "mold" (phomopsis juniperovora). --
it seems (as i saw on the most pictures) that the tip blight appears as patches. Somewhere in the middle of the branch, started the disease to get visible, the top and the begin are still green.. At my spotting is the whole branch red, no breaks between the discoloration. My perception is : the "tip blight" appears as patches,parts which discolor/die = while my spotting is completly color changed.

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Comments (7)

thanks textless, but i still doubt. maybe i haven't seen the right references. But what i found, will sadly not convince me. I had hoped ....
"Juniper blight" or "juniper tip blight" should do it. :) Your photos are better, but it looks like this: http://urbanext.illinois.edu/hortanswers/detailproblem.cfm?PathogenID=14
Wow, how strange. I've never seen this on evergreen shrubbery.
i think i knew what you meant, just symptomes of a disease (same as a gall, caused by fungi, the actually fungi isn't to see, but the mutations he cause). is "juniper tip blight" the common name. or have you some more hints, for what i schould search tomorrow.
If it's what I'm thinking of, you can't actually see the fungus... but it makes the plant sick.
still a fungus !! are you sure textless? actually i thought: this time it is no fungi. but as it seems, i find unintentionally fungi, which i dont know. ( maybe it's a hint for me to stop, my actual job. and go into fungi) thanks textless, will research for it tomorrow.
Kind of looks like juniper tip blight, a plant disease caused by a fungus.
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PublishedNovember 26, 2011

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