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Fungal disease?
Francis Woods2
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Hi hope someone out there can help. We have a low growing conifer which we trimmed back slightly around two weeks ago. There was no sign of disease but we found today a curious brown moist growth on two of the main branches and there are yellowy coloured lesions around the area where this brown "jelly-like" substance is.
Any suggestions to what it is. Should I cut and burn the branches? Or treat it?
Thank Frank
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It doesn't look like sap to me.. maybe a jelly fungus? Poke it with a twig to see if it's sticky. Or your finger. Sap is not worse than super glue (I know, I had a tube explode all over both hands and fingers last year. Consider trying to clean that off.. I spread my fingers immediately so they wouldn't stick together, but the glue was on there for the good part of a week despite repeated daily scrubbings). The pitch will come off withing 24 hours usually, it's just sticky and annoying.
Its not resin, its jelly fungus, it wont hurt your skin, neither will resin!
Dont worry about it.