Olivier: These Brown Crusts Under the Leaves in the Spring Hide a Plague that Can Condemn Your Tree

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With the return of spring, the olive tree regains strength, forms young shoots and appears in full health. Until when, by lifting a leaf, one discovers on the reverse small brownish crusts, like dry earth spots that one craves to scratch. Many take them for dirt or a remnant of bark, and allow time to pass. In reality, this tiny detail can announce a serious problem: a well-installed parasite that gradually emptys the tree of its energy. Check u…

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At the foot of your terrace, the olive tree seemed perfect, until the day you returned a leaf. Tiny brownish crusts, glued to the reverse, give the impression of a little dried soil. We scratch from the tip of the nail, it resists, we put the leaf back in place and we forget. Yet, this annoid detail often hides a real danger. The first signs go unnoticed: a few leaves that yellow, a sticky texture to the touch, sometimes a black film that pollut…