Fungi: Basidiomycota - Exobasidiales Exobasidium japonicum Azalea Gall Photographs on Azalea Hosts: Rhododendron caucasicum, indicum, nudiflorum, obtusum - Azalea Leaves are thickened and distorted, the galling initially pale green then becoming whitish Similar: Exobasidium rhododendri forms pinkish, globular galls on the leaves of cultivated Rhododendron species: R. ferrugineum, hirsutum, ponticum, x intermedium

Exobasidium japonicum, Azalea Gall
Broadstone, Dorset. November 2013