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Weird growth (?) on finger lime tree (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by StickyDango@lemmy.world to c/gardening@lemmy.world
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Hi everyone,

I've had this finger lime tree for a number of years now, and I have never noticed this sort of growth (?) or bug (?) or (??) before.

It doesn't look normal for sure. Tried to scratch it off with a branch, but it wouldn't come off. I'm sure if I scraped it, it would.

I'm leaning towards scraping it off. Is this an indication of worse things to come? I've no idea what this is.

I live in Melbourne, Australia.

Thank you! ๐Ÿ˜ซ

Edit: To clarify, it is the red thing with the white dots around it.

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[โ€“] rajarizer@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Scale insect! https://environmentalfactor.com/pages/scale

[โ€“] StickyDango@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Oh, yuck! I've had scale on plants before, but I've not seen one that looks like this. I'll be removing this in the next 5 minutes. Thank you!