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Exobasidium sawadae

CUP-CH 2228

Exobasidium sawadae

This species of Exobasidium mummifies the berries of cinnamon shrubs to produce spores. Other Exobasidium species are berry mimics: they can cause blue-green leaf galls, called “fool’s huckleberries,” that are perfectly edible.

Image by Kent Loeffler, Photographer, Dept. of Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology
Text by Kathie T. Hodge,
Director, Cornell Plant Pathology Herbarium.

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