Other Plant Disease -- United Kingdom
Plant health authorities are urging to be vigilant for sweet chestnut blight. The request follows laboratory confirmation of the disease on [19 Dec 2016] at 2 sites in Devon. One of the sites is in woodland. The disease was also found in September [2016] in Kent.
Andy Hall, Forestry Commission England, said: "The Chief Plant Health Officer moved quickly to implement our contingency plan. We have surveyed sweet chestnut trees within 1 km [0.6 mi] of the affected trees and found no further
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