Virus or ...???

thy · Post by **thy** » Jun 02, 2005 7:57 am

Not mine, but it is a friends Regal Splendor from 2001. Only one of the eyes look like this. It is standing next to an apple tree

Thanks
Pia

Bluecanoe · Post by **Bluecanoe** » Jun 02, 2005 11:29 am

Pia, that looks like the infected Regal Spendors I saw last year. Yesterday I saw a Krossa Regal in that shape as well!!

flowerchild59 · Post by **flowerchild59** » Jun 02, 2005 2:45 pm

I would dispose of it immediately!!! It looks infected.

wholyhosta · Post by **wholyhosta** » Jun 02, 2005 6:34 pm

Pia
That doesn't look exactly like HVX but it does look like a virus, which is incurable, so off with it's head (and all the roots, too). Sorry for your friend.
Brenda

thy · Post by **thy** » Jun 02, 2005 8:04 pm

Thanks

I have asked her for a pic of the plant and will post it tomorrow
Yes it sure looks like virus

thy · Post by **thy** » Jun 03, 2005 6:55 am

Those are the pics she send this morning

Darn it was so easy to see on GOLD Standard and BPGold

Post by **Chris_W** » Jun 03, 2005 12:08 pm

It does look like a virus, but I don't know if it is hosta virus x or a different virus.

I want to get some more plants tested not so much to confirm HVX but to see if it is a different virus causing it. On one from Holland this spring (Hosta 'Venucosa') the leaves look exactly like the top picture. I know it is a disease but am not sure if it is from HVX or something else...

thy · Post by **thy** » Jun 03, 2005 5:57 pm

Thank you Chris

I will look forward to hear about the test results

Pia