Dogwood Tree Leaves Brown Spots
There are any number of diseases and pests that can stress your dogwood and cause dogwood leaf drop.
Dogwood tree leaves brown spots. It is normal to see leaves falling in autumn but you should not see a dogwood tree dropping leaves in summer. Last year starting in about july one of my dogwood trees developed brown crispy leaves. This disease infects leaves starting. Septoria cornicola is another fungus affecting dogwoods.
The tree is a chinese dogwood cornus kous chinensis which i believed was not susceptible to anthracnose. Dogwood anthracnose was confirmed in st. Dogwood anthracnose and powdery mildew are of particular concern. It began on the leave tip and edges and within a month or two each leaf was nearly entirely brown.
Three leaf spot diseases that show themselves in varying degrees are dogwood anthracnose spot anthracnose and powdery mildew. Powdery mildew can occur yearly. Louis in 2012 and again in 2015. This is a page about leaves turning brown on a dogwood tree.
It is a young tree. It appears on dogwood leaves in late summer with purplish irregularly shaped spots that have small veins radiating from the center. While the leaves may brown before they fall in autumn brown leaves on a dogwood tree in other seasons is often a sign of poor health.