RE: Badly Diseased Pine

Its not the dreaded Pine Bark Beetle, I think its called Tomicus piniperda.. You will find holes in the bark with the sap running down.  I really don't know how to cure the tree,  if you can at all.  We have had two Pinus halepensis die from it.
Pamela
Costa Blanca Spain
-----Original Message-----
From: medit-plants-request@ucdavis.edu [mailto:medit-plants-request@ucdavis.edu]On Behalf Of B. Garcia
Sent: 30 March 2012 03:19
To: Medit-Plants Plants
Subject: Badly Diseased Pine

First, thank you all for answering my last question about Brachychiton.

I thought you all might be interested to see a couple of photos of a pine I pass by on campus about every day (I'm located just north of Monterey). It is in horrible shape but it's trying to survive. At first I thought it was some strange, small needled pine until I noticed that what I thought was another pine growing next to it was simply a branch from the same tree. I'm not sure what pine it is, but it could be Pinus radiata (the most common pine on campus aside from P. torreyana) with a really strange case of Pine Pitch Canker,  which has mostly killed off another pine a hundred feet away. I've also included a link to a photo of the trunk that shows severe sap leakage and pinching:

Full shot: http://i.imgur.com/3ZTGi.jpg

Trunk Detail: http://i.imgur.com/2e06r.jpg


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