thisplace.com.au - The River Red Gum Disease

This rare and only newly recognised disease attacks the brain and spinal cord, giving rise to meningitis like symptoms. It is fatal if unrecognised and untreated. The disease caused by a relatively common fungus associated with the Bloodwood group of Eucalypts. The fungus has also been isolated from Angophora, so may be present in the entire Myrtacae family.

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