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Impatiens green petal disease

Published: 2024-11-22 Author: mysheen
Last Updated: 2024/11/22, Also known as henna green disease, Jiangsu, Anhui, Hebei, Beijing and other places sporadic distribution. It mainly harms the flower apparatus of impatiens, making it lose its normal ornamental value. Symptom-affected plants are mainly characterized by the change of flowers to leaves, that is, petals change from normal pink to green, slender like leaves; some petals become leaf-like, leaving only a small amount of red. The new plant showed symptoms after flowering in that year. In the high temperature season in summer, the flowering period is shorter than normal, and the petals in the inner layer of Corolla turn brown, die and fall off quickly. Under the same cultivation and management conditions, the diseased plants are shorter than the healthy ones, and the leaves are often curled up from the edge.

Also known as henna green disease, Jiangsu, Anhui, Hebei, Beijing and other places sporadic distribution. It mainly harms the flower apparatus of impatiens, making it lose its normal ornamental value.

Symptom-affected plants are mainly characterized by the change of flowers to leaves, that is, petals change from normal pink to green, slender like leaves; some petals become leaf-like, leaving only a small amount of red. The new plant showed symptoms after flowering in that year. In the high temperature season in summer, the flowering period is shorter than normal, and the petals in the inner layer of Corolla turn brown, die and fall off quickly. Under the same cultivation and management conditions, the diseased plant is shorter than the healthy plant, the leaves are often rolled up from the edge, not spreading; there are more branchlets and smaller leaves.

The pathogen of the disease was plant mycoplasma. Sporadic distribution in the flower bed, often typical symptoms and transitional symptoms appear at the same time. Impatiens is an annual herbaceous flower, seed reproduction, the new plant shows symptoms after flowering, whether it is seed disease, to be determined.

Prevention and cure method

(1) strengthen quarantine, destroy diseased plants and prevent spread.

(2) the flowers of diseased plants change into leaves, so they have special ornamental value, and the scope should be controlled if they are cultivated as horticultural varieties.

 
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