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Andrew Guyer

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1.      I know this disease is primarily associated with boxwood, but does it also affect some other plants? Is there another plant frequently planted with boxwood that would be a possible carrier of the disease?

·         The disease has been diagnosed on several plants in the family Buxaceae, including Buxus spp., Pachysandra spp., and Sarcococca spp.  The disease has not been found to infect plants outside the Buxaceae family in nature, landscapes or nurseries, although some non-Buxaceae plants have been demonstrated to be susceptible to the boxwood blight pathogen under controlled laboratory conditions.

·         Boxwood is the primary carrier of boxwood blight in Virginia. Other plants in the boxwood plant family, such as species of pachysandra and sarcococca, are also susceptible, but instances of the disease on these plants are currently rare in Virginia (as of 2018).

 

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