Exobasidium juelianum

dwarfing redleaf

Names across languages

From the latest record: 2024-08-17.

Smooth, forms on the undersides of infected leaves, pinkish to pale red in color, covering the affected area

N/A (Not applicable, as it is a parasitic fungus that grows on leaves)

N/A (The hymenium forms directly on the host tissue, no attachment to a cap)

N/A (Does not have a stipe, parasitic on leaves)

Spore print white (microscopic spore mass on the affected leaf)

Parasitic, infects specific plants, particularly Vaccinium species, causing leaf and shoot deformations, spring to summer

Inedible, being a plant pathogen

Infection symptoms: Causes swellings or galls on shoot or flower, sometimes whole plant is infected

Galls size: 1–3 cm in diameter

Odour not distinct

Spores elliptical to cylindrical, smooth, 12–16 x 4–5 µm, hyaline, produced in basidia on the infected plant surface

Parasitic fungus that causes pink to reddish swellings on the shoots and flowers of Vaccinium species

1981). Symb. Bot. Upsal. 23(no. 2): 47.

Nõva rand, Läänemaa, Estonia

Pine-dominant coastal forest, on living lingonberry plant

59°13'50.7"N 23°37'36.8"E

🔆 Evening sun, clear sky, forest shade