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Boxwood Blight Continues to Spread
| Latest NewsScientists have confirmed that the same noxious fungus that has struck boxwood trees in Massachusetts, Maryland, Rhode Island, Oregon, and New York State, has appeared in Connecticut. In fact, Connecticut appears to be hardest hit by the fungal pathogen (scientific name: Cylindrocladium pseudonaviculatum). It threatens to attack thousands of trees there in the coming year.
The fungus turns leaves first brown, then black, and ultimately weakens trees to the point where they will die. It spreads via sticky spores carried on the wind, by rain splash, and in runoff.
Dr. Sharon Douglas, head of the Department of Plant Pathology and Ecology at The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station in New Haven, offers some preventative measures for landscapers and property owners. Two fungicides, chloronthalonil and mancozeb, can be applied to all visible surfaces of boxwood trees before any symptoms of infection are present.
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