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| Cedar apple or Juniper Hawthorn rust |
It is late May or early June and, after some much-needed
spring showers, your juniper and cedar trees look as if they were used as a
backdrop for a contest in which paint ball guns were used to shoot globs of
gelatin. Globs of a tan or orange
gelatinous substance of various sizes cling stubbornly to many of the smaller
branches and twigs of your plants, often surrounding them and encasing some of
the needles, especially on the upper and inner foliage surfaces. Some of the globs, especially the larger
ones, have noticeable protrusions that look like horns. Within a few days, the globs of gelatin will
turn the color of chocolate and begin to harden into unsightly galls that will
range in size from 1/16 inch to more than 2 inches. What happened?
