Anybody care to identify this substance that is oozing from the frost-damaged shoots of my Bambusa beecheyana?
It is on the shoots that are exposed to the sun (only) and that were partially killed by 20 degrees (F) temperatures in early December. I consider Beechey's marginal in this climate (USDA Zone 9, Sunset Zone 14) due to the damage we get every few years.
Orange goop on bamboo?
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Re: Orange goop on bamboo?
I've described this very thing here before - usually my Phy. viridis top kills and then the orange slime follows, I have not noticed other species doing same. For me there is an associated smell of fermentation and if you cut the canes they will be darker & heavier than normal and will also smell fermented.
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Re: Orange goop on bamboo?
I don't know what it is but here are some photos of the cut culms on my Ph. atrovaginata last May.
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Re: Orange goop on bamboo?
its a slime mold I believe
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Re: Orange goop on bamboo?
Could it be a fungus like stinkhorn?
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Re: Orange goop on bamboo?
Another orange goop observation on a dead box elder.
http://sparkleberrysprings.com/v-web/b2/?p=1434
One reason I think it is related to stickhorn fungus is that I had never noticed stinkhorns in the yard until we got bamboo.
http://sparkleberrysprings.com/v-web/b2/?p=1434
One reason I think it is related to stickhorn fungus is that I had never noticed stinkhorns in the yard until we got bamboo.
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Re: Orange goop on bamboo?
I asumed it was slime mold. I got some on different Bamboo after our hard freeze in Dec. Oldhammi, Beechy and others. Mine wasn't such a bright orange but had the same wet ugly gooey look. By time I got around to treating it it seemed to have run its cycle. I sprayed it with copper based fungicied anyway. It seems to only attack heavily damaged or dead culms.Maybe harmless other looks?
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