Picture courtesy of University of Illinois Extension. We very often get called to a customer’s house because their Spruce trees are dying from the bottom up, and even though they are pruning the dead limbs out, the trees continue to die! Most often, we find that the trees have Cytospora Canker (Sphaeropsi sapineas, or Siroccus conigenus)   which is a disease that can kill the tree over a short period of time if not managed at all. The spec sheet on this disease can be found at the University of Illinois Extension. “The fungus attacks trees or parts of trees that are injured or in a weak or stressed condition. The fungus […]