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Article: Rust takes the color out of trees, shrubs.(Home & Garden)(The art of gardening)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- May 1, 2005
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Byline: Amy Reynolds The Planter's Palette
Of all of the diseases that infect ornamental plants in the landscape, rust may be one of the most frustrating. Attacking many of the most commonly used and highly ornamental trees and shrubs, rust's insidious presence is marked by discolored foliage, early leaf drop, and disfigured fruit on crabs, hawthorns and several other species.
Rarely killing its victims, rust infestation nevertheless creates a visual blight.
Rust as we experience it here in the Midwest is actually one or more of three different fungi: apple rust, hawthorn rust or quince rust. One of those complicated "two-host" diseases, rust ...