📚 noun • entry_id 33400
Dutch elm disease
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enfermedad holandesa del olmo • grafiosis
A disease of elm trees caused by ascomycete fungi in the genus Ophiostoma and spread by bark beetles.
The process began 50 years ago when Europe’s elms were ravaged by the beetle-borne fungal malady misnamed ʻDutch elm diseaseʼ (which, in fact, is Asian).
The village is a dignified place of thatch, half-timbering, box hedges and neat farms, set among elms (though not as many as formerly, since Dutch elm disease took its toll) on the…
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