Cedars have a thing for apples. Apples have a thing for cedars. And when it rains, it shows. Cedar-apple rust is something that likely is showing after rains of recent weeks. Skiatook naturalist David ...

Q • What are the strange, brown, globular growths on my juniper? Write to the Missouri Botanical Garden's Center for Home Gardening at plantinformation@mobot.org or the Horticulture Answer Service, ...

Have you noticed a strange growth in your cedar trees? What you may be seeing is a disease called cedar apple rust. The growth is called a gall. These galls are light brown, reddish or chocolate brown ...

With our recent rainy weather, you may have noticed bright orange orbs with gelatinous tendrils on our native eastern red cedar and ornamental cedars (Juniperus spp.). These are the galls of the cedar ...

You may see large orange looking balls on cedar trees showing up at this time of the year. If you look closely, you will find a round brown gall about the size of a quarter that encircles a branch.

This is a plant disease topic we usually talk about later in the season, but with the warm weather we have been having, it’s likely that rust season will start a little earlier this year. And when we ...

Scientific name: Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae is the name of the fungal pathogen that involves two tree species and produces galls on Eastern red cedar (juniper). Description: The gall, seen ...