BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

Kalmia latifolia (Mountain Laurel, Spoonwood)

Suggested Literature

Kalmia latifolia may be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
PLANTAE
(plants)
SPERMATOPHYTA
(vascular plants)
MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)
ERICACEAE
(heaths and heathers)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Kalmia latifolia:

leaf leaf may be infected and damaged by mycelium Phytophthora ramorum - Sudden Oak Death (Causative Organism), Sod (Pythiales: Pythiaceae) UK/Ireland Appiah, A., Jennings, P., & Turner, J.A., 2004
Henricot, B. & Prior, C., 2004 [causes leaf blight]

Kalmia latifolia may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)
ERICACEAE
(heaths and heathers)

References

Appiah, A., Jennings, P., & Turner, J.A., 2004 Phytophthora ramorum: one pathogen and many diseases, an emerging threat to forest ecosystems and ornamental plant life
Henricot, B. & Prior, C., 2004 Phytophthora ramorum, the cause of sudden oak death or ramorum leaf blight and dieback

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