Shrubs may be trembling by doorsteps across North America as an aggressive fungus disease of boxwood invades the continent.
This boxwood lost many of its leaves to the boxwood blight fungus, first officially detected in North America in October 2011. Courtesy of Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
Boxwood blight, caused by a Cylindrocladium fungus, was unknown to science before 2000 but has now spread through Europe and New Zealand.
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