37+ Spruce Turning Brown. Spruces can suffer from rhizosphaera needle cast, a fungal disease that causes needles on spruce trees to turn brown and drop, leaving bare branches. There is nothing you can do about it.
They are turning brown in many, many areas. Could it be all the rain we've been. An alberta spruce that is turning brown may be infected by rhizosphaera needle cast, a disease caused by the fungus rhizosphaera kalkhoffii.
They are turning brown in many, many areas.
Learn why here and how if you, too, see yellow, brown or bare spots on your spruce trees, they may have the same fungus. The needles turn yellow or brown first, before dropping to the ground. Host dk shows you this once beautiful shrub.turns brown and dies!!!! The brown needles eventually fall off, leaving bare branches.