The long, cool, wet winter and spring sure made for some magnificent blossom displays. However, it also set up perfect conditions for molds, mildews, rusts and other foliage diseases. Several readers ...

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This time of year, you may notice that your fig trees look pretty terrible. This is nothing to be alarmed about; for the most part, figs are extremely hardy and easy to grow in the New Orleans area.

Myrtle rust is a devastating fungal disease that affects lilly pilly, myrtles and gum trees. Here's what it looks like and how to remove it.

With all this rain, people have been turning in yellowed fig leaves that have been dropping from their trees. This is the first sign of a very common disease called the Fig Rust Fungus, which has come ...

Q: Last year I learned I had rust on my serviceberry and hawthorn trees. What do I look for this year to prevent that? A: It’s hard to prevent rust infections on vulnerable plants unless you are ...

Starting in 2012, an epidemic began to spread across the farms of one of Latin America’s most important crops: coffee. That epidemic was coffee leaf rust, a disease caused by a nasty fungus. It’s been ...

The coffee leaf rust, “one of the most devastating pests of coffee plants,” has been tentatively identified on plant samples collected on Maui from managed and wild coffee in Haiku, the state ...