Evergreen trees such as pines, spruce and cedar often are most enjoyed during the Christmas holiday season. The bright lights, shining star and wide array of ornaments adorn the tree, helping to ...

Prominent orange spots that have appeared on the leaves of some of your crab apple and apple trees may look interesting, even decorative, but they’re no good for the plant. They’re symptoms of ...

The leaves of my apple tree have odd spots on them. What is this and what can I do about it? Although there are other possibilities, cedar-apple rust is a possibility, given your description, the wet ...

Image of the Day: Cedar-apple Rust Wind shuttles spores released from a gall on an apple tree to a cedar tree in order to complete the life cycle of the devastating cedar-apple rust.

Due to periods of cool, wet weather, some apple and crabapple trees are infected with apple scab or cedar apple rust disease. Early symptoms include olive, brown, yellow or orange spots on leaves.

Shown here is an intimidating and odd-looking fungal growth attached to a cedar branch. It is called cedar apple rust. The airborne spores growing on the leaves and fruit of an apple tree will infect ...

Tree still fruiting on site owned by Nottingham Trent University but afflicted by honey fungus infection It is the mother tree of perhaps the most popular cooking apple in the world. But the original ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Kansas City is used to rainy spring days, ...