White Pine Blister Rust Timeline

• 300 mya rusts develop

• 200 mya pines develop

• 50 mya white pine group is derived

• 3-5 mya stone pines split from North American white pines (Liston, 1998); P. sibirica in Asia; P. cembra in Europe.

Geological Time

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