Symptoms
Tips of emerging leaves appear brown and scorched, and often shrivel and rot.
Brown spots appear on the leaves and flowers, both of which may also rot.
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Symptoms
Tips of emerging leaves appear brown and scorched, and often shrivel and rot. Brown spots appear on the leaves and flowers, both of which may also rot. |
| Cause
Masses of grey fungal spores, which are spread by wind or rain, appear on infected plants in damp weather. Later the fungus forms hard, black, pin-head sized bodies (sclerotia) on the outer scales of affected bulbs and these can remain dormant in the soil for up to two years awaiting the next tulip host. Control
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