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  • Image: Smooth patch, multiple tree trunks
    Credit: Michelle Grabowski
  • Image: Smooth patch, tree trunk

    Credit: Michelle Grabowski

  • Image: Smooth patch, bark up close

    Credit: Michelle Grabowski

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green arrowSmooth Patch
Aleurodiscus sp. Dendrothele sp.

  • Sunken, relatively smooth, round to irregular area of bark on trunk or branches
  • Affected bark is often lighter in color
  • Small cream colored disks or saucer like fungal spore producing structures grow within affected area
  • Has no affect on the overall health of the tree
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  • Image: Nectria canker, canker up close
    Credit: O'Brien, Bugwood.org
  • Image: Nectria canker, large canker on trunk

    Credit: Michelle Grabowski

  • Image: Nectria canker, reddish bumps around canker up close

    Credit: O'Brien, Bugwood.org

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green arrowPerennial Nectria canker
Neonectria ditissima

  • Sunken round to oval cankers with target shaped ridges of barkless wood on large branches or the main trunk
  • Small dark sunken area on twigs that can girdle and kill the branch
  • Red to reddish orange raised cushion like bumps can occasionally be seen on the edge of the canker
  • More information on Perennial Nectria canker...

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