Garden Pests and Diseases: Strange bush disease I can't find anywhere on internet????, 1 by Roknlive

Roknlive wrote:
A couple of years ago, I noticed an odd transformation of my privet hedges in the front of my house in north Florida. It began with stunted new growth, developed into "crumbly cancher" like growths, proceded to move from one end of the row to the other, slowly kiiling them on the way.

I don't despise privet, but it is so common here, I did not loose any sleep when I had to cut a row of them down and replace them with something more attractive.

In the spring, I planted a rose bush, some ixora, and pittosporum in it's place, thinking that whatever the disease was was specific to that plant.

I have included pics of the original privet. The rose bush, and the ixora are showing symtoms of the same strange growth pattern.

Please help: I can not find any information on the web and stumbled on this site.

Thank you!