Originally Posted by ovidium

Hi everybody , my name is Ovidiu and I'm writing from Ireland
A fella I've met on a different forum is screaming for some help due to a weird looking thing that started growing on his chinese elm a couple of weeks ago.
He claims the swealings(as seen in the pics) have a easy detacheble membrane on the outside and some sort of white-ish granules inside. The tree lost many of the leaves and the rest of them seem to have some sort of white dots on the front and white powder on the opposite side.(see pics) He already used a fungicide but with no succes.
He doesn't speak english so I thought I might be able to translate back and forward if anyone can help.
Thanx and hope we'll be able to do somethng about this guy and his little tree.