Makes me wonder what brug crud I have now. LOL
True Arborea.
This is the only brug that made it thru the 2 weeks of freeze with minimal damage and with no protection no less. But all the leaves have been like this since.
Do you believe these leaves?
It is kind of attractive in a weird way. LOL
That is kind of interesting looking. Doesn't really look like any "crud" tho does it.
Kell sorry that you had all that frost BUT it looks neat,
Do you hope this stays this way? if so you have a new kind of variegated brug :0)
Janett
Sell it on eBay as a new type of variegated Brug, heehee! That almost looks like leafminer damage.
Hi Janett! Fancy meeting you over here. Sure it could stay like this and I would be happy. The variegation is bright yellow. I can always get another Arborea.
Veronica, that is an idea. I may get rich! LOL
I was thinking a viral disease maybe Bj, but I have no clue. This plant I have had for years and the winter never really bothered it before. Though it was colder here this winter than I ever remember it.
hehe someone must keep an eye on what you are up to, too much fun going on to miss it.
Janett
hey kell that looks like a SUPER VARIGATED brug, could make you famouse. lol.
Doris
Very cool looking! Maybe it's just some sort of weird damage from the weather.
Maybe the damaged surface got infected and the leaves are the result. Sorry for the negative, but it looks diseased or pest infected to me.
Laura
Oh, so sorry Kell. This looks like a virus to me and probably should be checked as soon as possible. I've seen other plants, such as hostas, display such symptoms and they were infected with a virus. No known cure and the advice given was to remove the plant and sterilize the soil and the shovel used to dig out the plant.
Tussee
Yeah, Kell, they do look cool, but I think that it resembles Mosaic Virus. Maybe the extreme weather forced it to emerge, or brought it in from some nasty place. I remember seeing Susie's pictures of affected leaves.
Ok, I found them.
http://www.abads.net/Brug-Virus/brugvirus.htm
I hope we're all wrong...in the meantime, hit eBay, LOL.
I wonder too if it is a virus. But my instincts are telling me it is OK. But what do I know? LOL I do not think it is Mosiac virus though if it is viral for the leaves look great except for the yellow coloring. All the ones I see online the leaves have more wrong with them than the coloring. And it is in great growth. All the leaves had frosted off but the stems were good. It is really putting out lots of growth and it had normal flowers right up till the night of the big frost. But I think I will send it to get diagnosed and watch it for a while before I toss it. It is off by itself and in a huge pot. I dread getting rid of all that dirt.
All the virused plants I have seen look sick and this does not. Here is a virused sang at the Arboretum. You can tell a mile away that this plant is ill. The entire plant looks ill.
I just had to laugh at myself, the plant is turning neon yellow and I am saying it looks OK to me. LOL. Anyway, the one thing that does worry me are the circular areas of yellow for I always do associate circles with disease though usually fungus.
Edited to say fingus?? LOL
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True, the leaves look too good for Mosaic....lol.
Maybe fungus, or maybe the cold did something to only some of the cells, which might explain the pattern.
I will be curious to see new growth. Now I am really wondering. LOL
Want a piece, Jackie? LOL It is a huge plant.
LOL!
Kell, I wouldn't toss it yet. It does not look like virus to me ( yeah, DR. K, right?) LOL
I kinda thought the pattern looked like leaf miners, too, only fatter trails, and yellow. Have you fertilized or sprayed with anything new? Is it in the same soil it's been being in? Has anyone sprayed bleach or something like that around your house that could have gotten on those leaves?
It looks to me like the smaller new leaves are regular green. I think I'd take most of those yellow ones off and see if the new ones don't all come in green.
That being said, I'd isolate it from the others while I played around with it. And keep us posted.