Dutch elm disease

(DED: Ophiostoma spp.)

A fungal wilt disease imported in elm timber from Canada that is fatal to European elms (not just Dutch elm), and largely wiped them out in the 1970s.

alien invasive species,
ambrosia beetle,
Ascomycetes,
Atinian elm,
disease,
Dutch elm disease (resistance),
English elm,
fungi,
invasive,
Princeton elm,
wilt disease

This definition is abridged from A – Z of tree terms: A companion to British arboriculture.
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