Conifer shoot tip turned brown and yellow and killed by Pestalotiopsis tip blight and dieback, or cryptomeria blight, Pestalotiopsis funerea.

Conifer shoot tip turned brown and yellow. Credit: Cesar Calderon, Cesar Calderon Pathology Collection, USDA APHIS PPQ, Bugwood.org<br />Licensed under a <a href=https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/>Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License</a>
Credit: Cesar Calderon, Cesar Calderon Pathology Collection, USDA APHIS PPQ, Bugwood.org
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License