apple canker

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apple canker - a disease of apple trees

blight - any plant disease resulting in withering without rotting

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Their damage can lead to lumpy growths in the bark, which can split in the winter, and lead to apple canker.

Control apple canker by cutting back diseased tissue to healthy white wood.

Look out for apple canker in the bark of trees and prune out infected areas completely.

Look out for apple canker in tree bark and prune infected areas completely.

This sapsucking pest causes stems to swell and distort as it feeds and apple canker disease can get in via the wounded bark.

OUR apple trees are under attack - not from outside or from Europe - but from the inside by a serious disease called apple canker.