ENTIRE LEAF -- An undivided and unserrated leaf.
EPIPHYTE -- A plant which grows above ground attaching itself to trees or rocks. The Amazon Air Plant seen in many nurseries is a good example.
ENTIRE LEAF: An undivided and unserrated leaf.
EPIPHYTE: A plant that usually grows on another plant and gets its nutrients from the air and water.
ERICACEOUS: Plants of the Heath Family, a large important group of shrubs and small trees.
ENTIRE LEAF - An undivided and unserrated leaf.
EPIPHYTE - A plant which grows on another plant but gets its nourishment from the air and rainfall. They do no damage to the host plant.
Usually, the entire leaf is affected, but sometimes only small areas are involved. In addition to the curling, diseased leaves often turn red or purple. This disease also may occur on the fruit, blossoms, and young twigs.
Damage: This pest eats holes in leaves until the entire leaf is consumed and the plant is defoliated. One caterpillar can eat all the leaves in a 2-square-yard area.
Leaves developing brown lesions and eventually the entire leaf will brown and separate from the stem is a symptom of Rhizoctonia Web Blight.
If more than half the leaf is affected, remove the entire leaf. You can remove some leaves by hand; others, you'll need to cut off. If only a small portion of the leaf is discolored, you can trim that portion to the natural shape of the leaf.
Powdery Mildew starts out as whitish spots that spread quickly until the entire leaf is covered. The white powdery growth is a fungus that with time becomes gray to tan/brown felt like patches.
Blighting, the death of the entire leaf blade, commonly occurs throughout the canopy of infected dogwoods in shady areas, or within the lower, shaded part of the canopy of those in sun-exposed sites.
The symptoms are browned leaf tissue between veins, at tips or along leaf edges. In severe cases, the entire leaf may become brown and dry. On evergreens, needles brown at the end but may remain green at the point of attachment.
With a nitrogen shortage, the entire leaf turns yellow and may drop off, while a plant with an iron deficiency will have leaves with green veins, even as the rest of the leaf turns yellow.
One way to distinguish between plants is by the shape of their leaf edges or margins. Here are a few of the more common leaf margin types. Entire leaf margins have smooth edges.
They rupture and spread spores which pass the disease to other leaves on the plant and other Plumerias growing nearby. The upper sides of the leaves become discolored. The entire leaf turns brown then falls off.
As it gains strength the black spots increase in size and will start to form yellow margins around the larger black spots. The entire leaf can turn yellow and then fall off.
These lesions usually enlarge to extend across the entire leaf. Dieback from leaf tips is also common. Individual leaf blades may have a single lesion, have many small lesions, or be entirely blighted.
 See also: Entire, Leaf, Plant, Water, Light
  
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