Hi just a quick question
I have a burrows tail plant, a little different then the one shown on this site, but was told that was the correct name.
Anyway I have a horrible wet slimey white fungus growing on it and was wondering what can be done by it.
It hangs in a window that gets a lot of direct sunlight and is hot not a lot of hummidity. It started out just at the top of the plant then has spread down all sections and is getting worse.
What would you advise please?
Thank you for getting back to me. I don't know that this makes any sense to anybody
Thanks
-S-

I can't imagine a fungus growing in the environment in which you have your plant. Could it be mealybugs rather than a fungus? Check our pest section, but picture the pink things shown there covered with a white waxy frothy covering. If this could be it, try dilute soap solutions apllied with as much force as you can without shattering the leaves of the plant (as you know, the attachment is very delicate). Derek

Doug,

The ease of propagation of this plant may be one of the old wive's tales that garden writers who are not gardeners (90%)repeat from one another. I think that I may have done the same in the past, but I have at least been successful with this by putting the leaves (the bits that drop off) with the bottom end (not the point) pushed into very coarse sand, and the whole then kept quite moist. A bit of a contradiction there, but watering of the very coarse sane doesn't keep it wet, just lets high humidity persist in the spaces between the grains. I use either sandblasting sand, or what I can sieve out of "coarse" sand from the garden store.
Rooting is not rapid, so you may need to wait longer than you expect, ut it does happen!

Good luck, Derek