Gymnosporangium clavipes
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A cedar-quince rust canker on a hawthorn branch | |
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Gymnosporangium clavipes Cooke & Peck, (1873)
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Gymnosporangium germinale F. Kern, (1908) |
Gymnosporangium clavipes is a plant pathogen, a fungus that causes cedar-quince rust. Similar to Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae and Gymnosporangium globosum, the fungus infects a wide range of Rosaceae, such as apple, hawthorn and quince trees, and also requires an evergreen host such as Eastern Red Cedar or a number of other juniper species to complete its life cycle.[1]
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References
- ^ James Schuster, Cedar-Quince Rust. Accessed July 16, 2008.