I have a Pear tree (maybe Bradford) that was planted 3 years ago. Sooty Blotch – Smudgy dark blotches that occur on fruit and leaves. Plant a tolerant variety. Treat fabraea leaf spot with fungicides and cultural controls. Pear diseases can be effectively managed through the combined use of culture, sanitation, resistance, and fungicide sprays. Symptoms include brown or black leaves that cling on the tree. I bought a pear tree about three weeks ago. The trees do not die, and by the next spring will leaf out fine, though this process seems t It sounds as though your pear tree has fire blight, a bacterial disease that can infect trees during bloom or during the growing season. SMALL BLACK LEECHES / SLUGS ON LEAVES This is the Pear Slug Sawfly (Caliroa cerasi). Symptoms first appear as brown to black spots on the leaves. Spray the … I have a young pear tree that is two years old, dwarf stock. Sanitation involves pruning and removing affected or dead p… Affected branches wither and turn black or brownish black, as if scorched. Is something eating the leaves… Q: Why did the leaves of my pear tree turn black? Pear tree & shrub have curling leaves with black edges and brown/black spots Asked June 14, 2018, 4:20 PM EDT I have a chanticleer pear tree and a shrub on the other side of a fence that have both developed curling leaves with black on the edges that are curled. I have had the tree for two years. The culprit is the bacterium Erwinia amylovora. Conidia are produced on infected plant debris in the tree when the temperature is above 40°F. Fire blight grows best during rainy weather with temperatures between 75 and 85 degrees Fahrenheit and attacks the growing wood first. Insect damage, fungal infections, fire blight or stony pit virus can cause black leaves on pear trees. 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Passionate for travel and the well-written word, Judy Wolfe is a professional writer with a Bachelor of Arts in English literature from Cal Poly Pomona and a certificate in advanced floral design. The bacterium first gets into a plant through natural openings in blooms, or wounds caused by insects, hail, broken or freshly pruned branches. This will not be easy but with your help we might get close. Disease symptoms appear in the spring after the blossoms open. Effects. Fungus and bacteria diseases are rampant with Pear, not so much virus. These signs include new leaves turning black or brown, new shoots suddenly dying and curling, and the remains of blooms still attached to the shoots. Prune the pear tree in early spring to remove dead or weak branches that can become hosts for fungal and bacterial diseases. Q: When and how do you prune pear trees? SUBSCRIBE NOW. 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