In a message dated 5/17/2006 6:38:58 PM Eastern Standard Time, hangermayer@isp.com writes:
The local nurseryman warned me that apples and cedars "co-host." I nodded and took it to mean that they harbor mutually antagonistic organisms, but that was just my guess.
My understanding is CAR over-winters on cedar and the reproductive spores develop in an organism of which I don't know the name. But it appears on the cedar trees very early spring as an orange jelly type organism with tentacles. They are kinda pretty almost like an orange flower and easly seen. I'm sure some where on the net pictures of it can be found. Their removal before maturity can help control CAR. Better to remove the red cedar trees breaking the apple to cedar and back again cycle. I realize some areas that is impossible due to the density of cedar populations on other's properties.
Jerry
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