Dr. Phyto

Tasmanian blue gum

Eucalyptus globulus

Diseases & pests on this plant

• eucalyptus leaf blotchMycosphaerella nubilosa

  Large irregular brown-purple blotches on juvenile leaves, premature leaf drop reducing biomass growth, mature crown foliage usually resistant.

• Myrtle rustAustropuccinia psidii

  Bright yellow to orange powdery pustules appear on soft young leaves, shoot tips, buds and flowers. New growth becomes distorted, purple-brown spotting and tip dieback follow, and repeated infection of flushes can defoliate and kill young plants and cut flowering.

• Phytophthora root + crown rotPhytophthora cinnamomi

  Sudden wilting + collapse of mature trees during summer heat stress, dark sunken cankers at base of trunk often oozing dark sap, root system rotted away to small white feeder roots only, gradual general decline + sparse foliage 1-3 years before final collapse, characteristic V-shaped soil-line lesion when bark peeled back.