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Cordyline has . . . fungal problem?

10 years ago

I bought this pot of cordylines back in January; some of the leaves had some discolored spots then, and what looked like some odd bluish residue on the stems adjacent to where the leaves grew, but none of this seemed alarming.

Late in February, a few leaves seemed to go from healthy to fading and dying really fast, but it was just a few, so I hoped it wasn't a real problem. However, I noticed that at the base of the petiole of the dead leaves was a dusty sort of blue ... stuff. Which made me think of mold. I could peer into the petioles of healthy leaves, and didn't see any of the powdery stuff, so I thought perhaps this was fungal. The rest of the foliage looked mostly okay, other than some smallish blemishes, whcih seem pretty widely distributed on the older foliage, but weren't growing any.

Suddenly in the last week, a whole bunch of leaves have started to fade and die off, and it all looks the same as the first die-offs.

Any ideas about how best to treat this? I have some neem spray BUT I read somewhere that cordylines don't react well to neem, so, thoughts about other anti-fungals? Anyone dealt with something like this before, on cordylines or anything similar? Thanks much!

Pictures of current dying/dead leaves:


The damaged area on the above image was originally smaller and separate from the dying area on the edge of the leaf; it's been slowly expanding and joining together.


The blue powdery stuff on the stems.


Powdery greenish greyish stuff - this has been in all the leaves that died. :(

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