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leaf blight

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Noun1.leaf blight - any blight causing a browning and falling of the leaves of a plantleaf blight - any blight causing a browning and falling of the leaves of a plant
blight - any plant disease resulting in withering without rotting
fire blight, pear blight - a disease blackening the leaves of pear and apple trees
leaf cast, needle blight, needle cast - a disease of conifers causing the needles to fall


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Sadly, the Hawthorns (Crataegus) are stressed by a leaf blight disease that may defoliate the plants in early summer for they, like the dogwoods and flowering crabapples, offer spring flowers on small growing trees, and bright crimson, persistent fall foliage that turns orange to scarlet in the fall.
Baking soda: For anthracnose, early tomato blight, leaf blight and spots, powdery mildew, and as a general fungicide.
Entries cover diseases of subterranean and aerial parts caused by fungi and oomycetes (such as Fusarium diseases, leaf blight, downy mildew, rust and smut), of bulbs caused by fungi (black or blue mold, mushy rot and smudge), and those caused by bacteria and yeast (sour skin, center rot, yeast soft rot), nematodes (needle and sting nematodes), viruses and phytoplasmas(garlic mosaic, iris yellow spot), and parasitic flowering plants (dodder).
 
 
 
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