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(Sclerotium cepivorum) Onion white rot is a devastating fungal disease of onions, leeks and garlic and other plants in the allium family. It causes the plants to rot, making them unusable.
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(Gaeumannomyces graminis, Laetisaria fuciformis, Monographella nivalis and other species) Lawn grasses are subject to a number of disease problems. Luckily, they rarely do very severe damage, but can lead to brown patches and areas of dead grass.
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(Armillaria species) Honey fungus is a devastating disease of trees, shrubs and other woody, and some herbaceous, plants. It attacks and kills the roots, then rots the dead wood.
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(Numerous fungal species – including Cercospora, Microsphaeropsis and Septoria) Fungal leaf spot diseases attack a very wide range of plants, producing spotting or marks, in numerous different shapes, sizes and colours, on the leaves.
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(several fungus-like organisms) Downy mildew diseases attack many ornamental and edible plants, producing a range of different symptoms, including discoloured, shrivelled and brown leaves.
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(Fusarium, Phytophthora, Pythium, Rhizoctonia) Damping off is a disease that affects seedlings, causing them to collapse, keel over and die. They may also become covered in a whitish, furry fungal growth.
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(Nectria cinnabarina) Coral spot is a fungal disease that causes woody stems and branches to die back and produces tell-tale small, coral-pink/orangey raised pustules on affected growth.
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(Phoma clematidina – or physical damage) Clematis wilt disease causes clematis plants to wilt rapidly. However, most suspected cases of wilt are actually caused by physical damage to the stems.
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(Botrytis fabae and Botrytis cinerea) Chocolate spot is the commonest fungal disease of broad beans. It produces reddish-brown or chocolate coloured spots on all parts of the plant.
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(Cylindrocladium buxicola and Pseudonectria buxi) Box blight is a devastating fungal disease of box (Buxus) plants. It kills the leaves, resulting in extensive bare patches, and affected plants die back.
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