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Victoria Plum Tree
barbara426
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This year I've had no blossom & dead leaves on my plum tree. Some of the branches looked dead so in October I pruned the tree right back. Now there is a purple fungus growing up the trunk & along the branches. What is the matter with it? Can you help please?
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I'm sorry ... it sounds to me as if it's dead or dying and the fungus is feeding on the rotting wood.
I don't think there's anything you can do to save it.
But for a gardener every cloud has a silver lining ... a dead tree is a new planting opportunity ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Could be Silver Leaf disease - Victoria Plums are very susceptible.