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Formosan Sweetgum Susceptible to North American Endothia gyrosa. G. A. Snow, Principal Plant Pathologist, Forest Disease Laboratory, Southern Forest Experiment Station, USDA Forest Service, Gulfport, Mississippi 39501; J. W. Beland(2), and F. J. Czabator(3). (2)Associate Plant Geneticist, Institute of Forest Genetics, Southern Forest Experiment Station, USDA Forest Service, Gulfport, Mississippi 39501; (3)Principal Plant Pathologist, Forest Disease Laboratory, Southern Forest Experiment Station, USDA Forest Service, Gulfport, Mississippi 39501. Phytopathology 64:602-605. Accepted for publication 29 October 1973. DOI: 10.1094/Phyto-64-602.

Endothia gyrosa is causing a serious canker disease of Formosan sweetgum (Liquidambar formosana) in a Mississippi test planting. An Asiatic tree species attacked by a virulent species of Endothia native to North America suggests the possibility of an epidemic in Asia reciprocal to chestnut blight in the USA. Care should be taken to assure that this pathogen is not introduced into the range of L. formosana in Asia.