What Apple? What Disease

Hello All
Sorry if i have posted this in the wrong Thread.

I have just move into a new house and there are all sorts of trees and plants, One tree in particular is an apple tree but i do not know what type can you help??

Also as you see from the attachments it has some kind of disease again i'm not sure what is is and how to cure it?? Some of the branches are dead or nearly dead but fruit is growing on them but they have the infection to.

Thank for any help!

 

Hello JamboMassive

Welcome to the forum.

From the second picture, I don't think your apple tree has a disease at all. It just seems to have some green algae on it, unles I missed something. Mature apple trees have all sorts of lichen and algae on them which are harmless. Fungi are another matter but I couldn't see any of those.

It's difficult to identify an apple just from a picture because there are scores of different types and many of them look very similar. I'd suggest visiting a branch of the RHS when they have their Apple Week in the autumn. I've taken apples to Wisley for identification and you can see experts having a hard time of identifying some specimens!

Your tree looks like it needs some careful pruning. I'd buy a copy of an RHS fruit tree book or pruning manual - it's what I did when I moved into a house with a very neglected apple tree in the garden. It was very helpful.

 

I agree with Flinty, apart from a bit of a prune your tree, and the apples, are fine. The algae wont do any harm.:thumb:

 

Thanks for the help! Im going to trim down the dead branches today and go get a copy of RHS book.

Thanks again