Environmental Problems



These are pictures and descriptions of different environmental problems affecting various plants.



Air pollution damage on dahilia

Air pollution damage on lilac

Air pollution on needles with yellow banding

Desiccating wind damage on arborvitae


Excess water at downspout

Freeze damage to Kwanzan
flowering cherry

Freeze damage to peach - dead buds-
discoloration in sapwood

Freeze injury to Crimson
King maple leaf

Freeze injury to Kwanzan
flowering cherry

Frost injury on new growth and flowers


Hail damage to twig of crabapple

Hail injury to twig of sugar maple

Heat reflection damage from paving

Hosta frost damage and leaf spot

Late frost injury to tulip tree

Lightning damage on oak

Lightning injury to the trunk
of an American elm


Oedema- high soil moisture-
high humidity- warmer soil temperature

Poor drainage- black and dead roots


Standing water- saturated soil
will exclude oxygen

Sulfur dioxide injury to birch

The base of a pine struck by lightning

Winter desiccation on rhododendron

Winter desiccation on spruce

Winter injury to hedege
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