Little Cherry
Little cherry
33 host plants
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Your sweet cherry produces small, poorly colored fruit lacking flavor; trees eventually decline. Little cherry virus-2 (LChV-2) spreads via apple and grape mealybugs and grafting. Plant only virus-tested stock, monitor for symptoms (check fruit flavor on suspect limbs), and remove infected trees immediately to prevent mealybug-mediated spread.
Establish new orchards only with nursery stock tested and found to be free of all known viruses. Virus-tested 'Kwanzan' and 'Shirofugen' trees have been released to nurseries for propagation.
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Causal Agent
Little cherry
Host Plants
33
Management
Cultural Controls
- Establish new orchards only with nursery stock tested and found to be free of all known viruses.
- Virus-tested 'Kwanzan' and 'Shirofugen' trees have been released to nurseries for propagation.
- Check the flavor of fruit on limbs or trees with pink fruit when the rest of the trees are turning red or mahogany.
- If poor flavor then flag the limb for tree removal.
- Control programs for the apple and grape mealy bug will reduce spread in affected orchards.
- Apply insecticides prior to tree removal.
Host Plants (33)
Prunus americana Wild Plum American (Red) Plum August Plum, Goose Plum Prunus avium Sweet Cherry Prunus besseyi Sand Cherry, Western Sand Cherry Prunus blireiana Blireiana Plum Prunus caroliniana Carolina Cherrylaurel American Cherrylaurel Prunus cascade Prunus cascade Prunus cerasifera Cherry, Plum Prunus cistena Purpleleaf Sandcherry Redleaf Sandcherry Cistena Sandcherry Cistena Plum Prunus dream Prunus dream Prunus emarginata Bitter Cherry, Wild Cherry, Quinine Cherry Prunus first Prunus first Prunus fruticosa Steppe Cherry, European Dwarf Ground Cherry, Mongolian Cherry Prunus glandulosa Dwarf Flowering Almond Prunus ilicifolia Hollyleaf Cherry, Holly-leaved Cherry Prunus lusitanica Portugal Laurel Prunus maackii Amur Chokecherry Amur Cherry, Manchurian Cherry Prunus newport Newport Flowering Plum Prunus okame Okame Flowering Cherry Prunus padus European Birdcherry Common Birdcherry Prunus prostrata Rock Cherry, Mountain Cherry Prunus sargentii Sargent Cherry, Sargent's Cherry Prunus serotina Black Cherry, Rum Cherry Prunus serrula Birchbark Cherry, Paperbark Cherry, Tibetan Cherry Prunus serrulata Japanese Flowering Cherry Prunus snow Prunus snow Prunus subcordata Klamath Plum, Sierra Plum, Pacific Plum Prunus subhirtella Higan Cherry Prunus subhirtella var. autumnalis Autumn Flowering Higan Cherry Prunus tai Prunus tai Prunus virginiana Prunus virginiana Prunus virginiana var. demissa Western Chokecherry Prunus virginiana var. virginiana Common Chokecherry, Eastern Chokecherry Prunus yedoensis Yoshino Cherry, Somei-yoshino Cherry, Tokyo Cherry