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RE: Human influence on invasive species
Guess I did. Love this kind of interaction on Steemit, it let me think on some diseases our native trees (oak trees) are facing, but not with that ash borer brutality!!
Those Phytophthora are such a trouble-causing genus. I wonder if there are any good ones - any!
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i don´t know either. Every time I heard about Phythopora it had a negative connotation...:(
Here on the US West Coast, the Oak Wilt is a huge, huge problem. I wonder what your oak trees are facing? There is no end to the stresses on our trees these days! But we can appreciate them now.
Here, on South Portugal, our cork and holm oak trees are facing a lot of diseases, but the harmful is a fungus disease (Phytophthora cinnamomi) that propagates by their roots. Prophylaxis plays an important role in the inhibition of this disease, but there are a lot of owners that don't know how to contain this disease, (yet).