Jul 18, 2008

Is there a problem officer?


sycamore leaf, originally uploaded by gardenpunk.

Last week Weeder posted about the leaf drop from her California Sycamore, and seeing that it was only July, the tree certainly was acting as if it was autumn.

She wondered if her tree was diseased, but it looks nice and lush to me from the pictures she posted.

Our sycamores also do the summer leaf drop, and I never worried about it until Angela answered weeder with the dreaded "anthracnose" noun.

Hasty Googling ensued, and now I fear that every darn California Sycamore in Folsom is diseased (not necessarily with the dreaded A noun), because most of them look like mine, and the leaves are covered with these little spots, and leaf drop is continuous.

What do you think? Sick trees? Or Anthracnose?