We have the same thing around my house. We received over a foot and a half of rain in a week and a half. Now redbuds, dogwoods, white and red oaks (I've observed around 10 species around here), yellowood, maples (silver, red, and sugar), sycamore and finally cottonwood all have black and/or yellow/brown on the leaves killing some leaves outright. Now that the rain has stopped and it has been near 90 the last two days, the damage seems to have come to a stop. Perfect conditions for fungus to attack wet and cool but not cold or hot when the spotting began. Trees are used to this especially if it is isolated and short in duration. If your trees are otherwise healthy, they should re leaf. Of course pics will help the experts ID the pest and it might be worse that I mentioned. Have you noticed any other trees doing this in your neighborhood.

in suburbia.. i would have paid for stump removal ... just due to lack of space ... on 5 acres now.. a rotting stump is one more attraction in the garden... so.. how much property do you have.. and do you need the space???? only you can answer this ... for wood to rot .. it needs water .. and nitrogen ... to speed rotting.. drill holes into the stump ... and insert 49-0-0 .. or any extra fert with high nitro ... and put a sprinkler on it.. and keep it dampish ... or.. ignore it.. since you dont need the space ... if cut flat enough.. you can cover it with pots.. and grow things in the pots.. and the run off from the pots will aid in rotting... with my kids.. little dirt monkeys.. i do not bother adding the fert ... no need for them to play in those caustic white lumps of fertilizer ... cheap tree cutters are not necessarily the best... make sure whoever you hire.. has full insurance for you and himself... like work comp .... WHATEVER you do ... depending on whether the disease can spread.. consider retaining the wood chips and the firewood.. unless some tree expert tells you this could threaten your other trees .... though some will tell you that the other trees are threatened by the disease ... honest tree peeps should also say that otherwise healthy trees should not necessarily be prone to the disease ... so whether you keep the wood chips is a hard decision .... i am no disease expert ... and will defer entirely .... in other words... the disease may not have killed the tree ... the disease may have come along to 'finish off' and otherwise dying tree .... good luck ken

Natives & veggies, I heard of the oak disease attacking the oak trees out west a while back and I've started to intersperse maple trees here and there on my property so if the oak fungus hits here I will still have some majestic looking trees left. I've had a few oaks drop leaves, dry up and come crashing down... but I'm not sure if it was the disease or lightning causing it. I get some hellish lightning on my little hill that has set trees ablaze but the downpour has put the fires out most times. Each year I buy a few maple trees 6 - 12 inch starts and grow them in pots until they are 10 - 12 feet tall then transplant them out. There are a few maples that are native to Florida so I buy those starts. I've also planted a few sycamore trees and some other trees. I've had to run a few hundred feet of garden hose set on timers to keep them watered until established so thats why I set out only a few each year. The well is located around 1,200 feet away from the furthest corner of my lot so it takes a lot of garden hose to reach. When I lived up north we lost all our elm trees to the dutch elm disease so I know the pain of losing beautiful huge trees. Lou

fguzzo, you've 'hijacked' another person's posting (from last year!!!) on which to ask your question. You'll get a lot more responses if you post your own query...plus you can have the answers sent straight to your email. Your oak has galls, either oak apple gall or gouty gall, don't really know which. Galls aren't usually considered a problem but their development along branches can cause some die back. Not something to worry about, in most cases, and there is nothing you can do about it, anyway. These galls, by the way, are not a disease. They are a growth of tree cells caused by small insects....in this case a gall making wasp. The larvae are inside that gall, until they chew their way out as adults.