List of Platanus diseases

This article is a list of diseases of trees in the genus Platanus (plane trees, also known in North America as sycamores).

Bacterial diseases

Bacterial diseases
Bacterial wetwood	Bacterium (unidentified)
Leaf scorch	Xylella fastidiosa

Fungal diseases

Severe infections of anthracnose can sometimes defoliate large swaths of sycamore during mid and late spring, but trees generally recover by mid-summer

Fungal diseases
Anthracnose	Apiognomonia errabunda = Gnomonia errabunda Discula umbrinella [anamorph] Apiognomonia veneta Gnomonia veneta Discula platani [anamorph]
Armillaria root rot (shoestring root rot)	Armillaria mellea Rhizomorpha subcorticalis [anamorph]
Botryosphaeria canker - dieback	Botryosphaeria dothidea Fusicoccum aesculi [anamorph] Botryosphaeria obtusa Sphaeropsis sp. [anamorph] Botryosphaeria rhodina = Physalospora rhodina
Butt rot	Ganoderma applanatum = Fomes applanatus Ustulina deusta = Hypoxylon deustum
Ceratocystis canker	Ceratocystis fimbriata = Ceratostomella fimbriata Chlara sp. [anamorph]
Ceratocystis canker - stain	Ceratocystis platani =Ceratocystis fimbriata f. platani Endoconidiophora fimbriata f. platani
Cytospora canker	Cytospora platani
Eutypella canker	Eutypella parasitica Libertella sp. [anamorph]
Fusarium stem canker	Fusarium merismoides = Fusarium rimosum
Hypoxylon canker - dieback	Hypoxylon tinctor Xyloclodium sp. [anamorph] pathogenicity not proven
Leaf blight	Phloeospora multimaculans
Leaf spots	Mycosphaerella platanifolia Cercospora platanicola [anamorph] Cristulariella moricola = Cristulariella pyramidalis Fusicladium spp. Mycosphaerella platanifolia = Sphaerella platanifolia Mycosphaerella punctiformis = Sphaerella punctiformis Mycosphaerella stigmina-platani = Mycosphaerella polymorpha Phyllosticta platani Ramularia sp. Septoria platanifolia Stigmina platani = Stigmella platani Stigmella platani-racemosae = Stigmella platani-racemosae
Massaria canker - dieback	Splanchnonema platani = Massaria platani Macrodiplodiopsis desmazieresii [anamorph]
Nectria canker	Nectria sp.
Powdery mildew	Erysiphe platani Phyllactinia sp. (unknown)
Phomopsis canker	Phomopsis sp. Phomopsis scabra = Phoma scabra
Phymatotrichum root rot (Texas root rot)	Phymatotrichopsis omnivora = Phymatotrichum omnivorum
Phytophthora root rot	Phytophthora sp.
Pythium root rot	Pythium sp.
Seedling disease	Phytophthora cinnamomi Rhizoctonia solani
Sooty blotch	Gloeodes pomigena
Spot anthracnose	Sphaceloma sp.
Wood rots	Bjerkandera adusta Chondrostereum purpureum Daedaleopsis confragosa Datronia scutellata Fomes fasciatus Fomitopsis meliae Fomitopsis pinicola Fomitopsis spraguei Ganoderma applanatum Ganoderma lucidum Hericium erinaceus Hysizygus ulmarius Inonotus arizonicus Inonotus cuticularis Inonotus munzii Laxitextum bicolor Laxitextum sulcata Oxyporus latemarginatus Oxyporus populinus Phanerochaete allantospora Phanerochaete arizonica Phanerochaete avellanea Phanerochaete burtii Phanerochaete carnosa Phanerochaete chrysorhizon Phanerochaete crassa Phanerochaete filamentosa Phanerochaete omnivora Phanerochaete tuberculata Phellinus gilvus Phlebia subochracea Postia tephroleuca Pycnoporus sanguineus Rigidoporus lineatus Trametes elegans Trametes hirsuta Trametes versicolor Tyromyces galactinus Tyromyces fissilis Xeromphalina fraxinophila Other basidiomycetes

Miscellaneous diseases or disorders

Miscellaneous diseases or disorders
Rosy canker	Illuminating gas in soil

Nematodes, parasitic

Nematodes, parasitic
Dagger	Xiphinema americanum
Lance	Hoplolaimus galeatus
Root knot	Meloidogyne sp.
Sting	Belonolaimus longicaudatus
Stunt	Tylenchorhynchus claytoni

References

• Diseases of Sycamore (Platanus spp.), The American Phytopathological Society