Fungus takes aim at eastern redcedar trees in late spring

The cedar apple rust fungus is sometimes found on eastern redcedar trees in late spring.
The cedar apple rust fungus is sometimes found on eastern redcedar trees in late spring.

Kansas Forest Service health coordinator urges landowners to look for orange spots

MANHATTAN, Kan. – In late spring, especially after a rainstorm, the careful observer may notice alien-like orange, gelatinous objects attached to the branches of their eastern redcedar trees. A Kansas Forest Service official assures it’s not the fruit of a mutant cedar -- or Jell-O from Mars -- but the sporeproducing…