I just bought a bouquet of flowers from the store, and the decorative leaf pieces have brown fuzzy looking bumps on the back of them. The bumps are in very regular looking patterns only on the leaves. Does anyone know what kind of leaves these are?
2006-06-26 11:55:11 · 4 answers · asked by twentyten88 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
I've examined them further. They are about 1mm in diameter, crumble when you scratch them, and do not smell.
Could it be pollen? Or possibly insect eggs?
2006-06-26 12:10:04 · update #1
Frankly, it sounds like "scale", an insect.
After reading your "additional details", it still sounds that scale (but dead). It's an insect itself. If I remember correctly, they live in soil and migrate up plants, attach themselves to the underside of leaves, and feed on them.
Those are dead (dry), so someone has eradicated them - no need to worry of them spreading. They're just unsightly at this stage.
Take a leaf to a garden center; they can probably identify it for you easily.
Peace.
2006-06-26 12:01:49 · answer #1 · answered by cosmosclara 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Brown spots are a fungus that flowers or trees get, go get some plant spray for the type of plant you have, you can get it at lowes.
Dee
2006-06-26 12:01:24 · answer #2 · answered by Deedee 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
lol we get those on the leaves from our maple tree
2006-06-26 11:58:03 · answer #3 · answered by big_daddy99_38 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
maybe moisture spots
2006-06-26 11:57:36 · answer #4 · answered by cherdwum4 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋