Common wherever red cedar has colonised a fence line near apples — which in rural Hendricks and Boone counties is nearly everywhere. In Plainfield, the most age-mixed canopy of the three: a genuine 1950s ring plus the pre-1900 Quaker core along Main Street (US 40) carries 60-to-90-year-old shade trees over the street, while Saratoga, Sugar Grove Farms and Legacy Farms hold 10-to-25-year-old planted stock, and the White Lick Creek bluffs hold the town's only real remnant woodland. Ash is gone here as everywhere in Indiana. Disfiguring rather than deadly.
Plainfield's canopy and what's at risk
The most age-mixed canopy of the three: a genuine 1950s ring plus the pre-1900 Quaker core along Main Street (US 40) carries 60-to-90-year-old shade trees over the street, while Saratoga, Sugar Grove Farms and Legacy Farms hold 10-to-25-year-old planted stock, and the White Lick Creek bluffs hold the town's only real remnant woodland. Ash is gone here as everywhere in Indiana.
What to look for
Orange gelatinous horns on cedar in spring; orange spots on apple and crabapple leaves.
Whether the tree can be saved
Disfiguring rather than deadly. It matters most to orchards and to anyone who wants a clean crabapple.
Timing in Hendricks County
Fungicide on the apple side at bud break, or remove the cedars within a few hundred feet.
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