Tree Disease Article - Kadee Jacobs

The Red Splendor is grown for it pretty flowers, bright colors, and the winter affects of it, which is why South Dakota has a lot of them. In the winter, it gets bright red because of the shorter days and longer nights and also the cold weather. People usually plant this to make their yards look better. Places like near patios, along a residential street, or in front of a window is a great place for this deciduous tree. It is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments

The Red Splendor tree is grown best in full sun for the development of the flowers and fruit. Crabapple trees are good at adapting to different soil conditions, but do best in well drained moist acidic soil. The red splendor will grow to be about twenty five tall at maturity, with a spread of 25 feet. It had a low canopy with a typical clearance of four feet from the ground. The red splendor is good for planting under power lines. This tree grows at a medium weight and can be expected to live for over fifty years.

Crab apple splendor produces bright pretty fruit. The difference between crabapples and is that crabapples are much smaller. Crabapples can be different colors like white, yellow, green, or any shade of red. Crabapples can also be a double or single flowers.

Splendor crabapple are susceptible to borers that can damage fruit and wood. The borers that can be in this tree include the pacific flatheaded borer, Prionus root borer, and the shotholt borers. The pacifit flatheaded borer usually attacks crabapple trees in May and June. The adult form is a beetle that is bronze color that is less than half an inch long with spots on its wing covers. Adults lay their eggs in injured and diseased areas of the crabapple tree and are most likely to lay their eggs in diseased and injured areas of the crabapple tree and are most likely to attack trees with a sunburn. Beneath the tree bark, the pale colored larvae hatch. In you see large piles of sawdust at the tunnel sites, or wet looking areas where sap is weeping through tunnels, then this is an indication it is a borer. To help this problem and save this tree, you can wrap or paint the trunk. However, some larvae may take up to three years to develop and emerge as adult beetles from trees. Females deposit up to 100 eggs in small groups or individually in sun-exposed areas in bark crevices. This pest can also affect the apple, pear, stone fruits, beech, cotoneaster, linden, maple, oak, sycamore, and some maple trees.

Not all crabapples do well in every location. Disease strength varies from region to region, and disease strength can vary from year to year. Some crabapples will be more prone to disease capability in areas with greater rainfall than in drier climates. Careful consideration of the following information will be helpful in choosing the right crabapple cultivar. Diseases that can affect the crabapple tree is apple scab, powdery mildew, cedar- apple, and fire blight.

Apple scab is one of the most serious diseases as it leads to early defoliation of the tree. It is a fungal disease, which develops in cool, wet springs. On susceptible crabapples, apple scab causes spotting of the leaves, premature defoliation, and unsightly spots on the fruit. There are numerous cultivars that are resistant or very tolerant so choose one based on its resistance. The scab on it is caused by a fungus that infects both leaves and fruit. To identify if your tree has apple scab, Leaf spots are round, olive-green in color and up to ½-inch across, spots are velvet-like with fringed borders, as they age, leaf spots turn dark brown to black, get bigger and grow together, leaf spots often form along the leaf veins, leaves with many leaf spots turn yellow and drop by mid-summer, infected fruit have olive-green spots that turn brown and corky with time, fruit that are infected when very young become deformed and cracked as the fruit grows. The red splendor is a great tree to have to brighten up your yard!