Explore: Alder Blight

Prociphilus tessellatus, known generally as the woolly alder aphid or maple blight aphid, is a species of aphid in the family Aphididae. "Prociphilus

by the ascomycete fungus Didymascella thujina, which causes cedar leaf blight. The fungus causes leaves to turn brown and does not spread between adjacent

species, mangoes, persimmons, maples, alders, and oaks. It is a saprobe specifically on oaks and causes twig blights of persimmon. "Physalospora abdita"

the American chestnuts were nearly wiped out by chestnut blight. The discovery of the blight fungus on some Asian chestnut trees planted on Long Island

economic importance. P. infestans was the infective agent of the potato blight that caused the Great Famine of Ireland, and still remains the most destructive

rivals that of chestnut blight and Dutch elm disease. For perspective, the number of chestnuts killed by the chestnut blight was around 3.5 billion chestnut

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their distribution reaches further north and less far south. Sirococcus blight is caused by the deuteromycete fungus Sirococcus tsugae. It affects spruces

of stem, shoot blight. Mountain laurel (Kalmia japonica): stem wilt. Laurustinus trees (Viburnum tinus): wilting and shoot lesions. Alder (Alnus glutinosa):

; Peterson, Ebba K. (2008). "Sudden oak death, ramorum leaf blight, ramorum shoot blight". The Plant Health Instructor. Scientific Societies. doi:10