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Chrysomyxa ledicola

Fungi

Family: Coleosporiaceae · Genus: Chrysomyxa

Chrysomyxa ledicola

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Chrysomyxa ledicola is a plant pathogen responsible for the disease large-spored spruce-Labrador tea rust. It affects white spruce, black spruce, Sitka spruce, Engelmann spruce, and Labrador-tea. It is also the cause of the orange goo that covered the Iñupiat village of Kivalina, Alaska in the summer of 2011.

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Growing details and traits for Chrysomyxa ledicola in the Library.

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