Re: CULT: Crown Rot(s) and Southern Blight
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- Subject: Re: CULT: Crown Rot(s) and Southern Blight
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- Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 21:29:42 PDT
From: "Jan Clark" <janclarx@hotmail.com>
Anner Wrote:
> Our rot is called Southern Blight, or Mustard Seed Fungus. It is so-
>called because, after the fine white webbing which forms across the
soil and and crown of the plant----the active fungus----begins to go
quiescent, it forms resting bodies that resemble mustard seeds.
Life is full of amazing suprises. Immediately after reading Anners note
above, I turned on the Telly, to watch my favourite gardening show
"Gardening Australia". The segment showing was about leaf spot, and I
was greeted with a close up of a petri dish, filled with white fluff and
dark brown spores - the mustard seed fungus.
I suspect my old, rotted sawdust mulch is harbouring this organism, as
those irises growing with a eucalyptus bark mulch did not suffer from
leaf spot.
Jan Clark
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