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Q.dahlia tubers

Zone 97068 | colleen.tennis@gmail.com added on November 29, 2016 | Answered

I dug up my dahlia tubers and the tubers have bumps on them. I have never seen these before on my tubers. Is this a fungus or disease? What should I do?

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Alisma
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Answered on November 29, 2016

I am not sure what these bumps are. They may be normal swellings called lenticels that can appear in wet weather. Or, they could be caused by nematodes:
https://smartsite.ucdavis.edu/access/content/user/00002950/courses/204NEM/IGALLS.htm

I don't think it is any more serious disease, like crown gall.

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