Do those sections have any top growth?If so, post an image.


Or are those stubs without top growth? If so, it's likely fungus degrading the dead wood.

These sections do have top growth, which looks fairly healthy from the top. I'm not on the site now so I can't take a pic, I'm afraid. It doesn't look significantly different from the stems without the white stuff.

When you return to the site, please take, and upload, an image of the entire shrub.

reminds me of things like wooly aphids ... or the other fuzzy one ..

but you would expcet them on the juicy young growth.. not the hard bark part ...

ken

Finally getting back to this! I have better pictures, including one of the shrub as a whole. Here goes:

The shrub (you can sort of see the white bit on the bottom right of the plant):

Close-up of one of the affected stems (there are two in total, close to each other):

Thanks again for any assistance. I'm not sure whether to cut the stems to the ground (the upper growth appears as healthy as the rest of the plant, FWIW), or wipe off the white stuff, or leave it alone...?