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  • Image: Eastern Tent Caterpillar 1
    Credit: Helen Atthowe, Missoula County Extension
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green arrowBlack witches' broom
Apiosporina collinsii

  • Witches' brooms, clusters of numerous weak shoots arising from one point on a branch, occur randomly throughout the tree
  • Dark, olive colored spots of fungal fruiting bodies on underside of leaves
  • Leaves within witches' brooms are first yellow and stunted, turn black
  • Common in wooded, shaded and moist areas

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