cedar-apple rust
noun
ce·dar-ap·ple rust
ˈsē-dər-ˈa-pəl- 
: a gall-producing disease especially of the apple caused by a rust fungus (Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae) that completes the first part of its life cycle on the common red cedar (Juniperus virginiana) and the second on the leaves and fruit of the apple
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The fungus that causes cedar-apple rust — so titled because some kinds of junipers are often erroneously called cedars — reproduces more readily in wet spring weather.
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Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 30 May 2018
Wheat rust needs barberry to survive, cedar-apple rust needs both juniper and an apple relative, and white pine blister rust needs a susceptible member of the currant family.
—The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 21 July 2015
Other Rusts Wheat rust, cedar-apple rust, and white pine blister rust require alternate hosts.
—The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 21 July 2015
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Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 30 May 2018
Wheat rust needs barberry to survive, cedar-apple rust needs both juniper and an apple relative, and white pine blister rust needs a susceptible member of the currant family.
—The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 21 July 2015
Other Rusts Wheat rust, cedar-apple rust, and white pine blister rust require alternate hosts.
—The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 21 July 2015
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