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I forwarded Nina's report to a gardening Listserv I'm on and an
Aussie from that list sent the following:
An introduced fungal species, it has caused die back across all
indigenous plant ecosystems.
[snip description of devastation]

Yeah, that's what we want to avoid in this country. There's no way to know if sudden oak death would be as bad as P. cinnamomi in Australia, but you can see why the US forest service might be a little jumpy about it.

Nina, whose shadblow bonsai are blooming!!!!!

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