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Fungus Infecting Landscape Shrubs Found in Southern Illinois

WCBU | By Associated Press
Published February 24, 2017 at 5:25 PM CST
CT.gov

Illinois officials have discovered a devastating fungus that can kill popular landscape shrubbery.  Illinois Department of Agriculture Officials say the Boxwood blight was first found in Illinois near Chicago last year.  Agriculture authorities now say a landscape company owner about 290 miles southwest of Chicago near Breese found it in his shrubs. The owner thinks the fungus was in plants from out of state.  Boxwood blight affects only certain plants that are popular as landscaping material around the state. 
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