- Author: Igor Lacan
![Figure 1. [J.K. Clark]](https://ucanr.edu/blogs/UCIPMurbanpests/blogfiles/38768small.jpg)
[From the August 2016 issue of the UC IPM Green Bulletin]
Two “sap flux” diseases observed in landscape trees—bacterial wetwood (or slime flux) and alcoholic (“foamy”) flux—often trigger demands that a landscaper “do something.” Yet the most appropriate action may be to provide cultural care and to monitor for any additional problems rather than to apply chemicals or undergo drastic “tree surgery.”
Symptoms
A single wound or bark crack located on the trunk or a large branch...
- Author: Akif Eskalen
![Figure 4. Foamy liquid oozing from an infected tree. [A. Eskalen, UCR]](https://ucanr.edu/blogs/UCIPMurbanpests/blogfiles/31730small.jpg)
[From the August 2015 issue of the UC IPM Green Bulletin]
Declining coast live oak (Quercus agrifolia) trees have recently been found throughout urban landscapes in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, Santa Barbara, Ventura and Monterey counties. A fungus associated with a specific beetle is causing the decline by spreading what is known as “foamy bark canker disease” (Figures 1 and 2).
The fungal species, Geosmithia pallida, was recovered from symptomatic plant tissues in association with the western oak bark beetle...
