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- Does the browning start at the leaf edge, from a spot, or from the lowest leaves?
- Are there black specks, powder, or mould on the dead tissue?
- Did you fertilize, spray, or have a heatwave just before it started?
Most likely causes
From the pests and diseases recorded for this plant, the ones whose symptoms match, most serious first. Symptoms alone rarely confirm a cause, so use the linked page to check the signs and treatment.
Longhorn Beetles
Sawdust-like frass is pushed out at the trunk base or branch crotches. The wood is hollowed out, the tree loses vigor, and the trunk may snap in strong wind.
How to identify and treat: Longhorn BeetlesCrown Gall
Irregular galls form at the crown and on the roots, gradually enlarging and turning woody. They block the flow of water and nutrients, so the plant loses vigor and may die.
General description; not specific to this plant.
How to identify and treat: Crown GallFruit Borers
Small entry holes with gummy exudate and frass appear on the fruit surface. On new shoots the tips wilt and die back and the inside is hollowed out.
General description; not specific to this plant.
How to identify and treat: Fruit BorersOther possible causes
- Black Rot — V-shaped yellowing spreads inward from the leaf margins and the veins darken into a black …
- Bacterial Canker — Leaf margins scorch and die back, and splitting the stem reveals browned vascular tissue. …
- Powdery Mildew — White patches appear scattered on the upper leaf surface at first, then the whole leaf is …
- Late Blight — Dark green water-soaked lesions appear on the leaves and expand quickly into brown dead ti…
- Sclerotinia Rot — The crown, stem or head rots in a water-soaked way and is covered in white cottony myceliu…
- Southern Blight — The stem rots at soil level and white silky mycelium spreads over the crown and the surrou…
Other symptoms on this plant
What other growers did about it
A page like this one can tell you what lemon leaves turning brown and dying is and what to try. What it cannot tell you is what actually happened to someone who had it on the same plant, at the same point in the season, and what they did next.
Gadenin is a free garden journal built around that. You photograph the plant, tag what you are seeing, and the entries line up by date for each plant you grow.
- Tag the problem and the app tells you how many other growers have logged the same thing on the same plant.
- Growers who make their records public can be followed, so you can read what they did and how it turned out.
- Next season your own entries come back at the same point in the year, so you check the plant before it starts.
Free on iPhone. Recording, tagging and reading public records cost nothing.