The common name for Litchi chinensis is the litchi tree . It is aboriginal to China but grows in all tropical areas of the world . According to Julia F. Morton , past president of the Florida State Horticultural Society , " the lychee tree is the most renowned of a group of edible fruit of the soapberry family , Sapindaceae . " Morton also states that lychee trees are fungi resistant but are sometimes afflict by three character of disease .
Mushroom Root Rot
Mushroom rootage rot usually infests lychee trees where oak tree trees were antecedently implant . The etymon rot is due to a fungus known as Armillaria tabelscens . R. T. McMillan , Jr. of the Tropical Research and Education Center at the University of Florida states , " The fungus is know as the beloved mushroom , honey agaric , oak fungus and shoestring fungus . " He pass on to say that the fungus kills litchee Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree by form mushroom cloud around the luggage compartment of the tree and in the roots . A sturdy fungous outgrowth known as mycelium , uprise in between the wood of the lychee tree and the bark . As time goes on , the mycelium turns mushy , forming the deadly mushroom . The mushroom grow into the healthy roots , make them to waste . The litchi nut exit eventually turn xanthous and the tree give-up the ghost . Mushroom beginning rot is the most deadly disease affecting the lychee tree diagram .
Algal Leaf Spot
Algal leaf spot is also known as greenish scurf or red foliage blot . Cephaleuros virescens forms rusty colour spots on the lichi leaves . The situation are soft and spongelike and germinate in the warm , summertime month . During germination , spores are produced and invade the stomata , the pores in the leaf ’s surface . The spores participate the stoma , mold alga in the tissue paper of the Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree . Algal folio spot proliferates in showery experimental condition , circularise through the raindrop . The septic tree becomes susceptible to fungus because of its weakened stipulation from leafage smear .
Leaf Blight
Gleosporium sp . fungus make leaf blight in litchi nut Tree . The fungus usually attest itself from early to tardy summer . The folio blight appear as tan spots on the leaves . The afflicted leaves look like they are scorched from the sun . Leaf blight eventually cause the leaves to expend from the tree .
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