Rose Spring Dwarf Disease
CAUSAL ORGANISM: A virus is suspected in causing this disease.
SYMPTOMS: Rose mosaic usually appears in spring as a distortion of growing tips or expanding leaves. Later the leaves can appear to be wavy and have yellow lightening patterns, oak leaf patterns or simply gold to yellow veins. Plants infected with virus usually are slower to develop in spring than healthy plants and usually produce fewer good quality blooms. During the warm summer typical symptoms can disappear only to come back as fall and cooler temperatures arrive.
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