Peach trees

[rtoney]

Anybody know what the black spungy stuff is that seams to grow on peach tree limbs is?
Thanks
Rick

[Hambone]

Brown Rot?

http://www.caf.wvu.edu/Kearneysville.../ombrownr.html

[Steve_G]

I am not sure if it attacks peaches, but I know that Black Knot does attack its cousin the cherry and plum (at least here in Newengland).

http://www.nysipm.cornell.edu/factsh...ases/bk/bk.asp

Steve

[Beesty]

Here we call it poop on a stick, a kind of fungus, you can cut of the infected limbs in the winter and burn them. more prevalent in wild cherry (black cherry) it doesn't often attack peaches.

[rtoney]

Steve,
It kind of looks like the picture in Fig 2 of your link. I can take a knife and slit the middle and pull them off. I may try and take a picture if I find anymore pop up it might help for identification.
Rick

[HONEYDEW]

sounds like scab infestation to me, Are they little small black taterbug looking bumps on the limb....

[rtoney]

I don't know about taterbug but they are small and black and when you take them off they feel like a sponge.

[HONEYDEW]

they are small and black and when you take them off they feel like a sponge.

Scab infestation, almost any fungicide should get it