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[Bassgarden <bassgarden@gmail.com>]

I had similar issues with my pawpaw a couple years ago when I had a treatment 
done to my lawn near my pawpaw. If your brother is using round up or having 
some treatment done to the grass around pawpaw trees, this will probably be 
the reason. I had a few branches in my pawpaw do that. After stopping the 
lawn treatment everything grew back nicely the following year. 

Bass Samaan 
Zone 6, pa

Thank you

On Jul 13, 2013, at 9:49 PM, mark wessel <growyourown@earthlink.net> wrote:

> For several years my brother has been asking what is wrong with his pawpaw 
> trees. I have never seen his problem until tonight when he brought a few 
> leaves to a family function.
> The leaves had circular to irregular shaped spots. THe center of the spot 
> was light brown with a dark brown area surrounding the lighter area. THe 
> whole thing had a yellow halo. They seem to start small and progress to 
> envelope much of the leaf. He said it will spread through the whole tree 
> and it eventually defoliates.
> 
> The trees are suckers or rootstock from Petersons Pawpaws. I think the tops 
> may have died from this several years prior.
> 
> Any Ideas?
> 
> Mark SW OHio
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