October: Horse Chestnut Bleeding Canker

01 Oct 2024

I painted bleeding canker of horse chestnut, caused by Pseudomonas syringae pathovar aesculi, for the October illustration of the BSPP plant pathogens calendar.

BSPP 2024 Calendar – Images by Helen Pennington – BSPP – The British Society for Plant Pathology

The painting shows a A chestnut tree with two large red-brown bleeding cankers on the trunk.

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