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large numbers over affected parts. These can be
made to fruit in the laboratory into rose-colored
sporophores up to 1 inch tall.
Control
The disease gradually disappears as
moisture decreases and temperature and sunlight
increase; so control seldom seems necessary. Six
weeks after striking cases of snowmold, lawns are
often uniformly green and show little sign of
having been affected. Phosphate fertilizers are
said to decrease injury from
Typhula
.
Typhula idahoensis
Snowmold
on wheat and
grasses in Idaho and Montana. Sclerotia are
chestnut brown, sporophores fawn to wood
brown, less than 1/2 inch high.
