02-26-2015, 05:40 PM
Interesting thought about the frogs possibly being carrier's of this fungus p.maise makes.
First heard the frogs around the keaau dump and up around kurtistown, this was within a couple of months from the time Walmart opened their garden section. I always felt the frogs came in plants sold at our new million dollar Walmart. The ohias started dying years later and in areas like steam vents, upper seaview, and the power line road from geothermal, between tangerine acres and leilani. Now several albezia look to be dying in these areas also.
The spreading of these dying ohia trees has been remarkable. We took a drive about three years ago down past the geothermal towards 4-corners. Saw hundreds of trees of all ages dying on the right side of the road below geothermal yet not one did we see on the left side of the road. We would see the death in parts of leilani but not Hpp or nanavale. Then a year later we started seeing it in many more places but not up in mountain view or higher in volcano near the vent.
I really thought this black looking fungus I found on most dead ohia trees grew on it after they died. We would see our trees stop flowering first then the leaves turn slightly silver or grey for a few weeks with no signs of new tips. Then the orange and brown color takes over the leaves and within two weeks the tree is dead left standing. We asked J.B Friday about this fungus that was killing the rose apple or wili wili. He said never has a fungus been known to kill such large ohia as we showed him that had died recently. He also mentioned the beetle had never killed that size either.
This fungus has changed our views around our property so much, we bought in a rain forest 15 years ago where everything was green and anything would grow. Now we see dead ohia's out every window, our black raspberries have developed some kind of rust, most of our coconut and mountain apple trees have also died in the last three years. We now have a new weird circle of death in our grass out back. We have watched for the past 6 months this circle grow from an inch wide to over a 8 inches wide and some 50 yards long. Showed a few friends who work many yards and they have never seen anything like it. We feel our ground may have cracked during that hurricane cause it first appeared about a week later. My Friends think I should take samples to be tested, where should I take the samples?
First heard the frogs around the keaau dump and up around kurtistown, this was within a couple of months from the time Walmart opened their garden section. I always felt the frogs came in plants sold at our new million dollar Walmart. The ohias started dying years later and in areas like steam vents, upper seaview, and the power line road from geothermal, between tangerine acres and leilani. Now several albezia look to be dying in these areas also.
The spreading of these dying ohia trees has been remarkable. We took a drive about three years ago down past the geothermal towards 4-corners. Saw hundreds of trees of all ages dying on the right side of the road below geothermal yet not one did we see on the left side of the road. We would see the death in parts of leilani but not Hpp or nanavale. Then a year later we started seeing it in many more places but not up in mountain view or higher in volcano near the vent.
I really thought this black looking fungus I found on most dead ohia trees grew on it after they died. We would see our trees stop flowering first then the leaves turn slightly silver or grey for a few weeks with no signs of new tips. Then the orange and brown color takes over the leaves and within two weeks the tree is dead left standing. We asked J.B Friday about this fungus that was killing the rose apple or wili wili. He said never has a fungus been known to kill such large ohia as we showed him that had died recently. He also mentioned the beetle had never killed that size either.
This fungus has changed our views around our property so much, we bought in a rain forest 15 years ago where everything was green and anything would grow. Now we see dead ohia's out every window, our black raspberries have developed some kind of rust, most of our coconut and mountain apple trees have also died in the last three years. We now have a new weird circle of death in our grass out back. We have watched for the past 6 months this circle grow from an inch wide to over a 8 inches wide and some 50 yards long. Showed a few friends who work many yards and they have never seen anything like it. We feel our ground may have cracked during that hurricane cause it first appeared about a week later. My Friends think I should take samples to be tested, where should I take the samples?