This just showed up on my brugs Saturday, now it has spread to my clematis and I think a few fuchsias. What is it? What should I do?
What is this!
Another shot.
I can't find any bugs. Could it be a fungus?
Did you take these photos with your phone? The pixels are so large that it's difficult to see any fine detail. Would you mind describing what concerns you?
The top of the leaves are bubling up. The newer ones are opening crinkled and deformed. I haven't found any bugs, can't smell anything on them and have found no powder or other subsrance on them.
COuld it be spider mites?
I'll try to get some better pics this afternoon.
I have 2 doing the same thing, I have even used a magnifying glass and cannot find anything, in fact the new leaves just coming on looks the same way, it's raining too hard right now to get a picture,
tish--
It could be Cyclamen mites---or Mosaic Virus.....not sure this is that, though???
One Summer, a few years ago--this Virus hit one of my Kopper King Hibiscus and also my Daturas....both in the same, long bed. Out of nowhere!
The leaves became shrunken and thick--and deformed. Almost like in "Shink Art"..remember that?
Here are healthy Datura leaves....
And here is a leaf that was affected bu Mosaic Virus---or so it was diagnosed by people on DG.
I cut the bad growths off--and the new leaves that re-grew were OK.
Still, My KK Hibiscus never lived after that.....just never came back up the following year.
Gita
I would first check the PH of your soil. I had similar looking plants last year, turned out to be PH.