"10 per cent of the trees have died and none of those remaining are producing flowers or fruit," explained botanist Rod ...

Researchers say they are in a race against time to save the tree from a deadly fungal disease. In 2010, a bright yellow ...

Flowers on a healthy Rhodamnia zombi tree prior to infection by myrtle rust.(Photo credit: The University of Queensland ) A ...

For Australia’s native guava, death came in the form of a fungus. Just 10 years ago, a virulent strain of the fungus Austropuccinia psidii arrived in New South Wales. First observed in Hawaii in 2005, ...