Tuscany Landscape Tree Healthcare News Update Tree Healthcare News Update – Italian Cypress . A canker is a localized dead (necrotic) area on branches, trunks, or roots. Cypress canker infects a plant through spores which are carried on the wind, in water droplets or by insects. The pathogen then girdles twigs, branches and the main trunk, interfering with the sap-conducting system and causing the foliage to die. 51 Cypress are showing symptoms of dieback and have been proposed to be removed. Cypress canker can be treated with Phospho-JET injections. Enhance Maintain Protect

Tuscany Landscape Tree Healthcare News Update . Tree Healthcare News Update – Italian Cypress The Cypress Bark Beetle is similar to the Pine Bark Beetle The tunnels resemble centipede on wood surface and the inner bark Adults feed on and kill twigs; egg-laying females are attracted to trunk of dead or dying trees Cypress Bark Beetle can be treated with TREE-age injections. Enhance Maintain Protect

Tuscany Landscape Tree Healthcare News Update Tree Healthcare News Update – Olive Trees . Verticillium Wilt is a vascular disease caused by the soil-borne fungus Verticillium dahliae Kleb Fusarium Wilt is a soil related bacteria that attacks the Xylem within the plant blocking the ability for the plant to take up water Verticillium Wilt leads to Fusarium Wilt. There is no cure for Fusarium Wilt. We have removed all 12 olive trees on the property and are replacing them. Enhance Maintain Protect

Tuscany Landscape Tree Healthcare News Update Tree Healthcare News Update – Olive Trees . We are replacing the Wilted olive trees with Swan Hill Olive trees (fruitless). The growers assured us that the Swan Hill Olive trees are not susceptible to Fusarium Wilt. Enhance Maintain Protect