Plumeria Pest & Disease Photo Contribution Guide

Clear, permissioned plumeria photos make the Pests & Diseases Guide more useful for growers. The goal is to show real symptoms on real plumeria plants, with honest captions, proper credit, and enough context to help visitors compare what they are seeing.

What to Include With Each Photo

• Your name as you want the photo credit shown.
• The permission statement above, written clearly with the photo.
• What the photo shows, if known: pest, disease, symptom, root problem, leaf issue, stem damage, or seedling problem.
• Confirmation that the plant is plumeria, plus the plant part shown: leaf top, leaf underside, stem, tip, roots, cutting, seedling, potting mix, or rootball.
• Region or general location if you are comfortable sharing it, especially for bore worm, borer, and unusual pest photos.

Why this matters: A close-up photo without context can be misleading. A wide photo plus a close-up helps separate true pests and diseases from watering stress, sunburn, nutrient issues, residue, old wounds, or normal plant markings.

Highest-Priority Photos Needed

Priority	Photos Needed	Why They Help
1	Scale insects on plumeria stems, leaf undersides, petioles, or branch joints.	Scale can look like bark bumps, scars, dried sap, or old marks. Real plumeria examples help growers confirm before treating.
2	Clean powdery mildew on plumeria leaves, including both early and heavier infection.	Powdery mildew can be confused with mineral residue, dust, spray residue, whiteflies, mealybug wax, or mixed leaf disease symptoms.
3	Spider mites, rust mites, and mite damage on plumeria leaf tops and undersides.	Mite symptoms can overlap with rust, nutrient stress, sun stress, dust, and general bronzing. Underside photos are especially useful.
4	Root-zone pests on plumeria roots or rootballs: root mealybugs, root aphids, root weevils, nematodes, and grubs.	Root pests hide below the soil line and often look like watering problems, root rot, weak roots, old perlite, or poor drainage.
5	May/June beetles, grubs, feeding damage, and timing examples from plumeria growing areas.	Beetle chewing and grub-related root stress can be seasonal and easy to confuse with caterpillars, leafhoppers, drought, or root decline.
6	Plumeria bore worm or borer damage, including entry holes, frass, tunneling, larvae, wilted tips, hollow stems, and branch collapse.	Borer diagnosis depends on the pattern of internal damage. Good photos help growers know when pruning and sanitation are needed.
7	Bacterial black tip, bacterial stem canker, and bacterial leaf/node rot on plumeria.	Bacterial symptoms can be mistaken for cold damage, fungal rot, sunburn, old wounds, or chemical injury. Real progressions are valuable.
8	Stem rot, root rot, and cut-surface photos from plumeria stems, cuttings, and rootballs.	Rot diagnosis depends on texture, spread, color, oozing, odor, and internal tissue appearance, not just a dark area.
9	Damping off, seedling rot, seedling mites, fungus gnats, and tray-level seedling problems.	Seedling collapse can look like heat stress, handling injury, dry media, wet media, fungus gnat damage, or early disease.
10	Plumeria-specific replacements for representative images, especially thrips, leaf miners, fungus gnats, root weevils, nematodes, and rust mites.	Representative images help temporarily, but plumeria-specific field photos build stronger diagnostic trust.

Helpful Photo Tips

• Take one wide photo showing the whole plant, tray, pot, branch, or affected area.
• Take one close-up showing the symptom clearly.
• For leaf problems, photograph both the top and underside of the leaf.
• For root problems, photograph the pot, rootball, close-up roots, and any insects, galls, rot, or residue.
• For stem problems, photograph the whole stem, the close-up damage, and any cut surface if pruning is needed.
• Use bright natural light when possible and avoid heavy filters.

What Not to Send

• Photos copied from websites, search engines, books, catalogs, or social media unless you own the photo or have clear permission from the photographer.
• Screenshots without photographer permission.
• Photos where the plant is not plumeria unless the image is clearly offered only as a representative comparison.
• Images with heavy filters, strong color edits, or cropping that hides the affected plant part.

Why this matters: The guide should help growers make better care decisions without copyright risk or misleading visuals. Real plumeria photos with clear permission and credit are the safest and most useful examples.

Related Guides

• Plumeria Pest & Disease Identification Guide
• Pest and Disease Inspection Checklist: What to Look For Before You Treat
• Plumeria Treatment Decision Guide
• Treatment Safety Checklist: Before Using Sprays, Drenches, Oils, Soaps, or Systemics
• Integrated Pest Management (IPM) for Plumeria
• Beginner’s Guide to Plumeria Pest Control: Quick Start

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