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- Diseases that can affect water lilies
- Fungal diseases have an easy game
- Recognize leaf spot disease
- Blight - Rhizome infested
- Stem rot - stems rotten off
- Tips
Most often, water lilies are attacked by fungal diseases
Diseases that can affect water lilies
Not only pests such as the dreaded water lily leaf beetle, but also diseases can play bad water lilies, they weaken and animate to enter.
Fungal diseases have an easy game
Generally, water lilies - especially those in the pond - are considered to be sensitive to pathogens. The reason is that their location preference provides an ideal breeding ground for fungi. Water lilies grow in moist to wet surfaces. Mushrooms love such an environment and can spread unhindered and fast.
Recognize leaf spot disease
All too often it is leaf-spot diseases that plague water lilies. There are two pathogens, which occur more frequently and complicate the survival of the water lilies. You recognize an infestation of this:
If the plant is not treated, it will soon enter. Affected parts should be removed and disposed of as soon as possible. As a prevention, it is important to minimize favorable factors. These include, for example, shady locations and too cold water.
Blight - Rhizome infested
Another dangerous disease is blight. Here the rhizome is infested first. As a rule, this disease appears at the earliest in the second year of life of the water lily. Help is often not in sight. It is better to remove the diseased plant from the pond before the fungal spores pass on to other water lilies or other plants in the pond.
You recognize tuber blight on the water lily because the rhizome is brown to black discolored. It smells and the smell is reminiscent of decay. In addition, the rhizome is soft.Furthermore, the leaves are unusually colored. At first, their color changes from dark green to light green. Finally, they only describe a yellow and are partially rolled up.
Stem rot - stems rotten off
A third disease that can occur is the stigma. Here in short:
Tips
Before deciding on a particular water lily species and variety, you should be aware of their disease resistance!