Peach leaf curl fungus survives the winter on the surface of the host plant, often in crevices in the bark. ... Nectarine and plum trees can also be infected. However it's not all bad news.

Ruud Kleinpaste discusses taphrina deformans, otherwise known as peach leaf curl, and how to treat it.

THE disease known as peach-leaf curl is due to a fungus called Exoascus defonnans (Berk.), and seems to be more or less common and destructive wherever peach-trees are grown. It is almost confined ...

5 things to do in the garden this week: Fruit trees. Peach leaf curl, which affects both peaches and nectarines, is a devastating fungus disease.

5 things to do in the garden this week: Fruit trees. Peach leaf curl, which affects both peaches and nectarines, is a devastating fungus disease. It appears on new leaves which pucker and curl in ...

Leaf curl disease also affects stone fruits such as apricots, cherries, nectarines, peaches and plums. The disease that affects peach, nectarine, and almond trees is caused by the evil fungus ...

Peach leaf curl is one example of the many fungal diseases that are more common in years with frequent rainfall in spring. “Fungus spores multiply on wet surfaces,” he said.

Peach leaf curl is caused by a fungus (Taphrina deformans), which results in curled, ... and discolored (red) leaves on peach and nectarine trees. Sometimes only a few of a tree’s leaves are ...

To control Peach Leaf Curl, treat Peach and Nectarine trees with a fungicide in the fall after leaves have dropped. In the past, the disease could be successfully treated with either lime-sulfur ...

What’s wrong with my peach tree? MILLIE: This is a really common problem - a fungal condition called leaf curl. It affects many stone fruit, especially peaches and nectarines.