Hi my husband bought me a beautiful dumb cane plant but when I really looked at it, it looks like it has a white powdery stuff on the leaves is this bad and can I treat it or just take it back to the store please help would hate to loose it
Name: Daisy I Reno, Nv (Zone 6b) Not all who wander are lost
If you just got it and have a problem with it, please take it back to the store, quick.
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Name: Daisy I Reno, Nv (Zone 6b) Not all who wander are lost
Maybe you should post some photos so we can see what you are seeing.
Why would you want to buy a sick plant and treat it? Go get a healthy one.
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and proclaiming...."WOW What a Ride!!" -Mark Frost
President: Orchid Society of Northern Nevada
Webmaster: osnnv.org
Neil, it sounds like your Dumb Cane plant, Dieffenbachias (Dieffenbachia) may have Powdery Mildew, which is a fungal disease that occurs at times on many different types of plants. Sometimes when plants are grown in very close proximity to other plants, without much air circulation the fungus will appear.
