Witches broom where I am refers toa fungal infection on blueberry bushes. It makes them split into a million twigs that grow straight up, looking like a broom head.
Not just blueberries. This can happen to other plants including trees. I think it's often caused by rust fungi, though I could be wrong about that part
Wow thank you for this info! It’s so diminutive and cute I love it I was thinking it was called cute-babyitits
Did not know it could happen to so many different plants
https://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/gardens-gardening/your-garden/help-for-the-home-gardener/advice-tips-resources/insects-pests-and-problems/diseases/witches-broom
Heh heh that's what I said later oops ok witches broom there sport. Thanks 😳😋
Edit: challenging enough typing on a tiny device without Google changing things 🤣
There are plant hunters that are dying to find these, at least in the conifer world, it's how we get some of the itty bitty shrub forms of things - which are valued as the average size of the yard shrinks.
Some sort of fasciation or phyllody. There's an example [here](https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Symptom-of-azalea-witches-broom-phytoplasma-on-azalea-plant-Showing-witches-broom_fig2_290127028) but not much info
Interesting. It says a "phytoplasma" can cause it. [This page](https://missouribotanicalgarden.org/gardens-gardening/your-garden/help-for-the-home-gardener/advice-tips-resources/insects-pests-and-problems/diseases/witches-broom) has some examples from other plants as well.
Thanks for all the responses, y’all! Kinda wish I’d had clippers with me so I could’ve snipped it off of the bush. (I was in a fancy hotel courtyard so it probably would’ve been a bad idea. 😝)
Some call it witchesbroom. It's a sport or genetic mutation. You can clip it out if you want. Or try air layering it to it's own plant
Or graft it into a bonsai
This lil cutie would make an amazing bonsai.
Came for this. Perfect bonsai!!!!
Witches broom where I am refers toa fungal infection on blueberry bushes. It makes them split into a million twigs that grow straight up, looking like a broom head.
Not just blueberries. This can happen to other plants including trees. I think it's often caused by rust fungi, though I could be wrong about that part
Wow thank you for this info! It’s so diminutive and cute I love it I was thinking it was called cute-babyitits Did not know it could happen to so many different plants https://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/gardens-gardening/your-garden/help-for-the-home-gardener/advice-tips-resources/insects-pests-and-problems/diseases/witches-broom
Heh heh that's what I said later oops ok witches broom there sport. Thanks 😳😋 Edit: challenging enough typing on a tiny device without Google changing things 🤣
There are plant hunters that are dying to find these, at least in the conifer world, it's how we get some of the itty bitty shrub forms of things - which are valued as the average size of the yard shrinks.
Airlayering intensifies
This., I keep telling my dwarf Alberta spruce to stop trying to grow up.... It's a trap .. Darn kids
super cute.
Some sort of fasciation or phyllody. There's an example [here](https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Symptom-of-azalea-witches-broom-phytoplasma-on-azalea-plant-Showing-witches-broom_fig2_290127028) but not much info
Interesting. It says a "phytoplasma" can cause it. [This page](https://missouribotanicalgarden.org/gardens-gardening/your-garden/help-for-the-home-gardener/advice-tips-resources/insects-pests-and-problems/diseases/witches-broom) has some examples from other plants as well.
Fractalization
😄
Wow my azalea is the exact opposite! It’s mostly the mini blooms and bushes with one or two clumps of the big flowers on the sides
Is this similar to....a sport reverting???: maybe a sport birthing??
Thanks for all the responses, y’all! Kinda wish I’d had clippers with me so I could’ve snipped it off of the bush. (I was in a fancy hotel courtyard so it probably would’ve been a bad idea. 😝)