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Tasmania lanceolata - leaf drooping
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Posted by greg_boyles Vic Aust (gregsplants@eftel.net.au) on Fri, Apr 6, 07 at 12:57
| My potted Tasmania lanceolata is suffering from quite pronounced leaf droop. I thought it might be the lerps that were on it so I cleaned as many off as I could find and sprayed it with garden insecticide.
The one next door to it suffered from thrips but has recovered nicely after treatment with the same insecticide. With that one the tips of the leaves were dying off rather than drooping.
But the insecticide still does not seem to have solved the problem for this second Tasmania.
Anyone know what might be causing it? |
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RE: Tasmania lanceolata - leaf drooping
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- Posted by pos02 NSW Aust (My Page) on
Fri, Apr 20, 07 at 1:25
| I had one in the ground which did a similar thing. It was a tube stock, and was doing Ok for about a year. It then started to droop and eventually died. In all this time it didn't put on any new growth. I put it down to lack of water, but I haven't been game to try them again (and the fact that you need one of each sex to get fruit). |
RE: Tasmania lanceolata - leaf drooping
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These don't sound like plants that are happy with their place. The insect attacks might be a symptom of discontent with their situation and soil, rather than the cause of anything. Are you replicating rainforest conditions for them? Shade, damp, acid soil, mulch, and so on? Our local one is Tasmannia insipida (actually, strictly speaking it's had a name change to Drimys), and it likes a good rich mountain basalt soil.
I've tried one at home, but lost it to drought. (Didn't know about the need for both sexes, Pos, so thanks for that info.)
The seeds on "insipida" are anything but insipid, by the way, despite the name. They're very hot and peppery.
Trish |
RE: Tasmania lanceolata - leaf drooping
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| They don't only grow in rain forests. They also grow in dry schelrophyll forests in the same sort if places you find Pomaderris apsera, apparently. As long as they are in shade or have plenty of water they are happy. Have one in a pot that has recovered from mealy bug attack that is booming in the same location as the one that died. The location is an enclosed pergola area with tinted plastic where some maiden hair ferns are also thriving. Given this I would say that it is a disease issue rather than an environmental one. |
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