Look-alikes: Anthracnose, tubakia leaf spot, and other leaf spots. Tubakia (Actinopelte) leaf spot This fungal disease usually occurs in late summer or early fall. Symptoms are round to irregular, red-brown spots on leaves surrounded by light brown areas. The areas may merge to kill large areas of the leaf.
The White Tiger is like a bildungsroman about a young Indian man who has to crawl out of the mud of impoverished horrible village life and swim up toward the light of a life of wealth and ease. And corruption.
White tigers, which for some reason are so popular with some zoos, are just mutants - albinos that lack pigment in their skin, hair and eyes. Tragically, in the past century or so tigers have lost 93 per cent of their historic habitat - 40 per cent in the past decade - evicted by encroaching humans and all that goes with them.