EPPO Global Database

Harringtonia lauricola(RAFFLA)

Distribution details in United States of America (Kentucky)

Situation
Current pest situation evaluated by EPPO on the basis of information dated 2023: Present, no details
First recorded in: 2019
Comments
EPPO Reporting Service (2020/028) : found in 2019 in Sassafras albidum in southwestern Kentucky (Christian, Todd, and Logan counties). The vector, Xyleborus glabratus, was also observed.
References
* Eaton MJ, Beale J, Long S, Dreaden TJ, Blevins A, Mayfield A, Buland M, Hadziabdic D, Crocker EV (2023) First report of laurel wilt caused by Harringtonia lauricola (previously Raffaelea lauricola) on Northern spicebush in Kentucky and Tennessee. Plant Disease 107(4), 1221.
------- On Lindera benzoin.

* Loyd AL, Chase KD, Nielson A, Hoover N, Dreaden TJ, Mayfield AE, Crocker E, Fraedrich SW (2020) First report of laurel wilt caused by Raffaelea lauricola on Sassafras albidum in Tennessee and Kentucky. Plant Disease 104(2), p 567.
------- On Sassafras albidum.