Any of several destructive diseases of pine trees caused by fungi of the genus Conartium, resulting in orange blisters on the bark and tips of branches.
Example sentencesExamples
Also, removing lower branches on white pines can prevent blister rust.
Some currants are host to the White pine blister rust, and should not be planted near white pines.
Its effects combined with the onslaught of blister rust have meant an ecological double whammy for biodiversity, and the natural recruitment has been predominately lodgepole pine.
The culprit, it turned out, was an alien fungus known as blister rust.
An invasive disease called blister rust has decimated whitebark pines in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, and may well cause the trees to disappear altogether.
Definition of blister rust in US English:
blister rust
noun
Any of several destructive diseases of pine trees caused by fungi of the genus Conartium, resulting in orange blisters on the bark and tips of branches.
Example sentencesExamples
Its effects combined with the onslaught of blister rust have meant an ecological double whammy for biodiversity, and the natural recruitment has been predominately lodgepole pine.
The culprit, it turned out, was an alien fungus known as blister rust.
Some currants are host to the White pine blister rust, and should not be planted near white pines.
Also, removing lower branches on white pines can prevent blister rust.
An invasive disease called blister rust has decimated whitebark pines in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, and may well cause the trees to disappear altogether.