| OLDER LEAF |
Colouration over whole
Nitrogen:
Pale green to yellow leaves
Phosphorus:
Leaves dull, lacking lustre,
Bluish green or purple
Colours
Colouration defined Pattern
Potassium:
Scorching and yellowing,
around the edges
of leaves, which may be
cupped.
Magnesium:
Patchy yellowing often with
a triangle of green light
of green remaining at the
at the leaf base. Less
commonly, green or light
brown scorching with severe
deficiency in some species |
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| EITHER OLD/YOUNG LEAVES |
Colouration forms pattern
Manganese:
Mottled diffuse pale green/
yellow patches between
veins. No restriction of
leave size (unlike Zinc). |
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| YOUNGER LEAVES |
Colouration form pattern
Iron:
Nearly total loss of green
between veins, leaving
faint green 'skeleton' of
veins on leaf
Zinc:
Severe restrictons of leaf
size or stem length, or
both(hence the terms 'little
Leaf' or 'rosetting').
Distinct creamy yellow commonly
interveinal pattern.
Distorted young leaves
Copper:
Tips of leaves are cupped,
narrow, defoliation or
scorched. Distorted young
leaves |
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