Later in the day the temperature went above freezing. Below is a photo of a gall on an Eastern Redcedar (aka Eastern Juniper, Red Juniper, or Juniperus virginiana). It is part of a Rust cycle that affects Apple trees so we have to cut off and destroy the gall before spring if we want to avoid losing our wild apples.
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Cedar-apple rust got a lot of cedar trees chopped down in Alabama, from what I've heard.
There are a ton of cedars in our area though.
Never heard of cedar apple rust before! Interesting!
I've read that one should even consider growing apples if there is a cedar tree within 10 miles. We had a similar gall from on our hawthorn trees, probably delivered on the feet of birds, who loved those thorny trees.
I do plan on doing the circuit of the property and looking for more of these galls and destroying them. We had a huge crop of wild apples last year and I enjoyed eating them for many weeks in the fall. I would hate to lose them. Meanwhile, I wonder if some of the apple trees do have the rust. We have very few cedars. There are only two that I know of right now but I may have been overlooking them.
The figure I heard was that the stuff can travel 1 mile. Not sure if that's correct though.
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