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Re: TT: Re: Re: Live Oak & Lawns
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May;
I am not familiar with details, but there is a wilt disease which causes
decline and death of live oak. I have seen reference to much occurrence of
it in Texas. Maybe e-mail or call to Texas experts will help. However, I
recommend you contact your county's Cooperative Extensive Service forester
or horticulturist first. He/she should help you get an answer to your
problem. Let's hope it's not the wilt! And DON'T apply any Chlorox! That
would only make things much worse!
At 04:30 PM 1/24/98 -0600, you wrote:
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>Please don't mind me - I do have a problem with my live oaks.
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>I can't seem to find an answer - maybe someone here will have one.
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>I live in nw Florida - and we have a tan fungus that kills our live
>oaks. I begins as innocuous looking patches of beige - looks like maybe
>a lichen. Then it spreads. The branches which it covers, finally die
>and "self prune", but some of those branches are very big, and the trees
>very, very high.
>
>My husband feels it is spread by birds and squirrels. That seems
>reasonable, though fungi spores are airborne. I have HUGE trees over
>the horse corral and over the house. I see specks on the lower trunks
>forming and several branches are infected and I was wondering if a mild
>Clorox bath would help.
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>Also - I am a great admirer of letting "lawns" go wild with indigenous
>plants. I only have a small strip of plantable "garden" because of the
>donkeys and the horse, which is electric fenced. But I'll tell you, I'm
>the only yard with butterflies!
>
>Thanks to all for any help.
>
>May
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Hope our children do!
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