noun
- Any of several diseases of pines caused by rust fungi of the genus Cronartium and marked by destructive invasion of bark and sapwood and producing blisters externally.
- synonyms: white-pine rust, white pine blister rust
- Fungus causing white pine blister rust and having a complex life cycle requiring a plant of genus Ribes as alternate host.
- synonyms: Cronartium ribicola
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