I was given a large Haemanthus albiflos plant to divide and bring to the next branch meeting, however, I'm concerned that a few of the bulbs have blotchy leaves. Does anyone know what has caused this? The leaves underneath the ones in the photos are plain green.
I searched for pictures of Haemanthus with a virus and I think the pattern is similar to this one posted on a forum: http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=7168.0 This is one of my plants with the most visible blotches:
blotchy Haemanthus leaves - another virus?
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Re: blotchy Haemanthus leaves - another virus?
Looks like one of the mosaic viruses, sorry . Quite easily spread from plant to plant by insects and cutting implements
Re: blotchy Haemanthus leaves - another virus?
Thank you. Hopefully I've spotted it before it spread to anything else, it hadn't been in my greenhouse long. And I'm glad I realised before I handed out virus infected plants to everyone!