Petera

Description:The Ministry of Primary Industries has revealed it will stop trying to contain a serious plant disease from spreading further in New Zealand, with myrtle rust now being found in nine regions including the South Island for the first time. MPI myrtle rust incident controller Catherine Duthie said it is a sad but inevitable day. It's one we've been expecting for a long time now as the number of infections have increased across the country and this signals a change in the overall direction," she said. I look out my office window and I see the pohutakawa on Tinakori Hill and they were in bloom all over the summer and it's devastating to think that we might lose those trees," Ms Duthie said. A year-old pohutukawa tree in Kawhia at risk of myrtle rust infection. Catherine Duthie "This tree is thought to be around years old.

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