Common wherever red cedar has colonised a fence line near apples — which in rural Hendricks and Boone counties is nearly everywhere. In Speedway, no public street-tree inventory has been published for Speedway, so species counts are UNVERIFIED. Because the residential core finished building out by the mid-1950s and has barely been rebuilt since, much of the yard canopy is likely of comparable age and large enough to close over narrow streets and 40-to-50-foot lots — an inference from build-out dates, not a measured finding. The exception is Main Street, where a town streetscape reconstruction installed all-new landscaping, so those trees are recent. Disfiguring rather than deadly.
Speedway's canopy and what's at risk
No public street-tree inventory has been published for Speedway, so species counts are UNVERIFIED. Because the residential core finished building out by the mid-1950s and has barely been rebuilt since, much of the yard canopy is likely of comparable age and large enough to close over narrow streets and 40-to-50-foot lots — an inference from build-out dates, not a measured finding. The exception is Main Street, where a town streetscape reconstruction installed all-new landscaping, so those trees are recent.
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 Marion County
Fungicide on the apple side at bud break, or remove the cedars within a few hundred feet.
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