Some of these fungi can be reduced by performing preventative disease control spraying or injections. However, some of these issues may be detrimental to the health of your tree, especially on a chronic basis. Some of these pose minimal health concerns to trees and can even just happen on an isolated year as a cosmetic defect. There is a whole host of fungi and phenomenon that can cause strange growths on leaves. These infestations can often be addressed with tree spraying of a labeled material. In some cases, certain insect or mite problems can also discolor leaf tissue. In some cases, this issue can be corrected by taking a soil test for your tree in the root zone and adding the necessary elements to correct the soil pH and to raise levels of certain materials that are below optimum in the soil. If leaves are losing their vibrant, green color during the year, even turning yellow, it could be a sign that your Maple tree isn’t being sufficiently nourished. This could be one answer to the question “What’s wrong with my maple tree?” Poor leaf color Girdling roots can also cause problems as they restrict the vascular flow of water and nutrients up to the leaves. This could be a result of a disease issue, nutritional deficiency, or the impact of environmental changes or stresses in the past year or so near the tree. When leaves start to appear to be getting smaller each year on a plant, it’s a good sign that there is a problem. In any case, if you are looking at your Maple tree and realizing something just doesn’t look right, these are some of the things to look for: Small leaf size Some problems can be solved by pruning, or a tree and shrub care program, but others may have no viable solution and may just lead to increasing decline of the tree. Some of them don’t warrant concern but others do. We use Maples a lot in landscape design as well as we often see a multitude of problems with existing Maples. Maple trees are common throughout our area, and they have been widely used in landscaping both residential and commercial properties. Often the question “What’s wrong with my maple tree?” has a complicated answer. Others can be puzzling and give us a good amount of work to solve the case. Some of these clues lead to easy diagnoses. We get calls from property owners both residential and commercial, trying to figure out what is wrong with their tree. Sometimes being arborists is kind of like being a detective.
What’s wrong with my maple tree’s leaves?
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