chestnut blight or canker

Diaporthales > Incertae sedis > Cryphonectria parasitica (Murrill) M.E. Barr

Identification, Biology, Control and Management Resources

Selected Images from Forestry Images

View All Images

Number:0590013
Description: Symptoms; canker
Photographer:Robert L. Anderson, USDA Forest Service
Resolutions:768x512 - PowerPoint/Web
1536x1024 - Print
 
Number:1400114
Description: Sign; Orange stroma of cryphonectria emerging through bark of canker.
Photographer:Linda Haugen, USDA Forest Service
Resolutions:768x512 - PowerPoint/Web
1536x1024 - Print
 
Number:1415081
Description: Symptoms; Bark necrosis. July 11, 2002
Photographer:Andrej Kunca, National Forest Centre - Slovakia
Resolutions:768x512 - PowerPoint/Web
1536x1024 - Print
 
Number:1415083
Description: Sign; Anamorph fibers. July 11, 2002
Photographer:Andrej Kunca, National Forest Centre - Slovakia
Resolutions:768x512 - PowerPoint/Web
1536x1024 - Print
 
Number:1415077
Description: Symptoms; Tree dieback. July 11, 2002
Photographer:Andrej Kunca, National Forest Centre - Slovakia
Resolutions:768x512 - PowerPoint/Web
1536x1024 - Print
 
Number:0454002
Description: Symptoms; Sunken area on bark of a young chestnut tree resulting from infection by Cryphonectria parasitica. Note adventitious shoots arising below the dead patch.
Photographer:Ministry of Agriculture and Regional Development Archive, Ministry of Agriculture and Regional Development
Resolutions:768x512 - PowerPoint/Web
1536x1024 - Print
 
Number:0488100
Description: Symptoms; diseased chestnut
Photographer:John H. Ghent, USDA Forest Service
Resolutions:768x512 - PowerPoint/Web
1536x1024 - Print
 

External Links

Subject Reference(s)

  • The CABI Bioscience Database of Fungal Names (Funindex). The world database of fungal names (IndexFungorum; aka funindex) contains over 345,000 names of fungi (including yeast, lichens, chromistan fungi, protozoan fungi and fossil forms) at species level and below. It has been derived from a number of published lists including Saccardo’s Sylloge Fungorum (contributed by SBML, USDA), Petrak’s Lists, Saccardo’s Omissions, Lamb’s Index, Zahlbruckner’s Catalogue of Lichens (comprehensive for names at species level only but with an increasing number of names of infraspecific taxa) and CABI’s Index of Fungi. - http://www.indexfungorum.org/
  •  
  • Tainter, F.H., and F.A. Baker. 1996. Principles of Forest Pathology. John Wiley and Sons, Inc. New York, 803 pp. -