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Fungus like growth on Coleus

CheemaCheema Posts: 2
in Problem solving

Hi,

White fungus type growth is attacking my coleus plants. It doesn't look like powerdy mildew, but I'm not sure. I'm attaching a picture of the growth. The white things may look like some bugs but they are not. 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5hRwvQddLTUclhiUVBTQk9EV1Z1RHdFM2xoWG13ZnZMNFZR/view?usp=sharing

Can somebody tell what this is and if its possible to cure it at all? I tried using common fungicide but that has had little effect.

 

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  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,384

    Those are sap-sucking insects known as 'mealy bug'.  Advice from the RHS here:

    https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?PID=201

     

    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • CheemaCheema Posts: 2

    Thanks for the heads up, Bob. Since those bugs NEVER moved, I thought those were some sort of fungi. Now I know what I'm up against.

  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190

    They grow very easlily from seeds, why not start again in March. 

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

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