White Pine Blister Rust Timeline

• 1854 Dietrich publishes name (no description!) C. ribicola on rust in Ribes from the Baltic.

• 1865 Dietrich noticed epiphytotic event in P. strobis in Estonia.

• 1871 J. C. Fischer named and described C. ribicola in Germany

European Outbreak

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