maple fungus epidemicMaple tree malady won’t dim vivid fall colors
They wont let me copy text from the link, but this is the fungus that dropped all our Noway maple leaves months early. It didnt touch the Silver maple. It depressing to drive around the area and see so many bare trees way to early. They got mowed in as they dropped, so I dont have a front yard source for shredding into mulch and then into compost. I never ran out of leaves before. The article blames the moist early summer. My garden tender didnt need to water anything for the 10 days we were in Maine July 18-28!
I think I already have fungal rich compost forming everywhere already!
Now there is a Maple Syrup shortage as this fungus like Sugar Maples too. They have not specifically blamed much of the shortage on weak trees without leaves. I hope its not back next year, but they say it doesnt harm the tree much, but several years of that in a row with this severity infected trees cant be good for them.
I'm Probably not going to get too much sympathy for my Pray For Dry campaign!
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