Pink disease

 

Disease name:

  

Pink disease
      

Causal agents:

   Erythricium salmonicolor (Corticium salmonicolor)
      
Trees affected:   

Acacia mearnsii
Eucalyptus spp.
Podocarpus and other native trees

      

Tree part
affected:

   Stems and branches
      
Impact:   

Stem breakage, tip death and reduced growth, tree death
      

Symptoms:

   Cracking of stems/branches, branch and tip die-back, presence of light pink fungal crust, discrete pink pustules, or "cob web" type pink growth on dead/cracked areas