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JUNIPERS

Selection Info Some Common Diseases Some Common Insects and Insect-related

Blue to green to yellow tip foliage, ground covers, shrubs, trees (including columnar forms) blueberry like fruit (used to flavor gin), moist, well-drained soils.

Phomopsis
Twig Blight
Cedar rust (Susceptible varieties)
Winter injury
Root rot
Wood rot

Mites
Scale

LARCH

Selection Info Some Common Diseases Some Common Insects and Insect-related

Moist, well-drained acidic sois.
Sun, American & European species, European better tree, weeping & non weeping forms, 70 to 75 feet tall.

Root rot
Canker
Chlorosis
Wood rot

Cottony Maple Scale

LILAC

Selection Info Some Common Diseases Some Common Insects and Insect-related

Sun, moist well-drained soils, nongrafted varieties need regular pruning to maintain plant health, need modified pruning on grafted variety, white to purplish flowers in June (shrubs), tree blooms in June, flowers are & have pleasant odor.

Canker
Powdery Mildew
Root rot
Botrytis Blight
Bacterial Blight
Leaf spot
Wood rot

Borer
Scale

LINDEN

Selection Info Some Common Diseases Some Common Insects and Insect-related

American 60 - 80 feet tall & little leaf 30 - 70 feet tall.
Little leaf better (60+ feet variety), likes moist well drained rich soils, tollerates, pollution, 30 to 70 feet tall.

Anthracnose
Scorch
Canker
Verticillium wilt
Wood rot
Root rot

Aphids
Plant bug

MAGNOLIA

Selection Info Some Common Diseases Some Common Insects and Insect-related

Trees - Low branching slightly. Moist, acid, organic soils. Tolerates light shade, 20 - 30 feet tall.
Light pink flowers.
Shrubs - white flowers, 15 - 20 feet tall.
Not all magnolias hardy inNorthern Illinois.

Canker
Verticillium wilt
Scorch
Chlorosis
Wet wood
Wood rot
Root rot

Magnolia scale
Tulip tree scale

MAPLE

Selection Info Some Common Diseases Some Common Insects and Insect-related

Norway - Tolerates dry soil,
40 - 90 feet tall.
Crimson King (Dark purple foliage) schwedler (purplish green foliage)

Columnar varieties
Japanese - wide range uses, 15 - 25 feet tall.
Red - moist or dry acidic soils 40 - 60 feet tall.
Green (Gold fall color) & red foliage, cultivars, many cultivars include columnar silver - Fast grower, weak wood tolerates wide range of growing conditions, 50 - 120 feet tall.
Sugar - tolerates light shade, forest tree, moist well-drained soils, 60 - 120 feet tall.
Boxelder - weak wooded, short lived weedy tree, gets boxelder bug.

Anthracnose
Sooty mold
Verticillium wilt
Scorch
Chlorosis
Canker
Wetwood
Chemical injury
Wood rot
Root rot

Scale - Cottony - Leucanium - Oystershell
Aphids
Leaf Miner
Leaf Hopper
Flat headed apple borer
Leaf galls
Aerified mites

OAK

Selection Info Some Common Diseases Some Common Insects and Insect-related

Burr - difficult to transplant, tolerates wide range of growing conditions, 70 - 100 feet tall.
Pin - fastest frowing & easiest to transplant 60 - 100 feet tall.
Reds (pointed leaves) very prone decay and wilt
White (rounded lobes) resistant to decay and wilt

Oak Wilt
Wet wood
Anthracnose
Canker (bacterial and fungal)
Root rot
Wood rot
Leaf spot
Chlorosis
Scorch
Powdery Mildew
Leaf Blister

Leaf Miner
Succulent Oak Gall
Scale - Oyster - Leucanium
Aphids
Wood Borers (feeds on to rotting wood)
Gypsy Moth
Tussock Moth

PINE

Selection Info Some Common Diseases Some Common Insects and Insect-related

Eastern White - moist well - drained slightly acidic soil, 50 - 150 feet tall.
Environmental conditions
Reason most die in ill.
Scotch - over planted, 30 - 90 feet tall.
Austrian - over planted, 50 - 100 feet tall.
Red - tolerates abused soils, 50- 125 feet tall.
Mugo - shrub up to 35 feet by 35 feet.

Sooty mold
Pine Wilt nematodes (especially Scotch)
Wood rot
Root rot
Canker
Rust
Needle diseases
-Blight
-Cast
-Sphaeropsis (diplodia)
-Tip blight (bird)
-Yellowbelly
-Sapsucker

Zimmerman Pine Moth
Mites
Pine Sawfly
Leucanium Scale
Pine Needle Scale
Pine Bark Adelgid
Sawyer Beetles
Shoot Moths
Pine Tip Moth
Aphids

PURPLE LEAF PLUM

Selection Info Some Common Diseases Some Common Insects and Insect-related

Short lived fast growing tree, 15 - 30 feet tall.
Sand cherry is the shrub 7 - 10 feet tall.

Verticillium wilt
Canker
Root rot
Wood rot
Black knot
Winter injury
Bacterial spot
Blossom and Twig Blight
Leaf curl
Winter injury

Peach Tree Borer
Aphids
Eastern Tent Caterpillar