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Examples of peach leaf curl in a Sentence
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Spray peach trees with approved fungicides to combat peach leaf curl and shothole.
—oregonlive, 3 Jan. 2022
Curled and disfigured leaves on peaches and nectarines are peach leaf curl, caused by a fungus.
—Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2022
Treat peaches four weeks after leaf fall spray for peach leaf curl and shothole diseases.
—oregonlive, 1 Nov. 2021
If leaves on peaches, nectarines and other stone fruits look curled and disfigured, that’s probably peach leaf curl, caused by a fungus.
—Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 May 2021
Sulfur is a fungicide that controls fungal diseases like apple and pear scab and peach leaf curl.
—Kym Pokorny | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 28 Dec. 2020
However, most varieties of both are susceptible to a terrible disease called peach leaf curl, which destroys most of their leaves and severely limits fruit production.
—Pam Peirce, SFChronicle.com, 11 Oct. 2019
The 20 or so specimens featured in the Harvard Museum of Natural History’s upcoming Fruits in Decay exhibition suffer from an array of ailments: among others, peach leaf curl, pear scab, gray mold, brown rot, blue mold and fire blight.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 29 Aug. 2019
Lime sulfur is a fungicide that controls fungal diseases like apple and pear scab and peach leaf curl.
—Kym Pokorny, OregonLive.com, 7 Feb. 2018
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First Known Use
1888, in the meaning defined above
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“Peach leaf curl.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/peach%20leaf%20curl. Accessed 25 Dec. 2024.
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