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Common Diseases of Selected Forest Trees

Tree species

Fungus name

Disease nature

CONIFERS:

1.Cedrus deodar

 

1.Fomes annosus

2.Peniophora luna

 

1.Butt rot disease

2.Butt & trunk rot

2.(a)Abies pindrow (fir)

(b) Picea smithiana (spruce)

1.Armillarea mellea

2.Fomes fomentarius,F. robustus,F. pini

3.Peridermicem thomsoni,P. picerae

Ceropsora picerae

1.Root rot disease

2.Heart rot disease

3.Needle rust

3.Pinus longifolia

(chir)

1.Cronartium himalaynese

2.Fomes pini, F. pinicola, Ganoderma applanatum

3.Poria monticola

1. Chirpine swertia felt rust

2.Heart rot disease

3.Brown cuboidal decay

4.Pinus wallichiana

Fomes pini (Trametes pini)

Heart rot

BROAD LEAVED:

1.Acacia catechu

1.Ganoderma lucidum

2.Fomes badius

1.Root rot

2.Heart rot

2.Dalbergia sissoo

1.Fusarium solani

2.Ganoderma lucidum

3.Uredo sissoo

1.Wilt disease

2.Root rot disease

3.Leaf & twig rust

3.Shorea robusta

1.Polyporous shorea

2.Hymenochaete rubiginosa, Fomes caryophulli, Fomes fastuosus

1.Root rot

2.Heart rot

4.Tectona grandis

1.Pseudomonas solanacearum

2.Peniphora rhizom- orphosulphurea

3.Corticium salmonicolour

1.Wilt disease

2.Root rot disease

3.Pink disease

5.Santanum album (Sandal)

 

Spike disease

6.Eucalyptus hybrid

1.Corticium salmonicolour

2.Ganoderma lucidum

1.Pink disease

2.Spike disease