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‘CUSHION-GALL’ disease of cacao is widely distributed throughout South America1 and has been reported also from Ghana2 and Nigeria and Ceylon3. The disease has been found in most old cacao plantings in British Guiana, in the ‘green-point’ form, and was recorded and described by A. W. Bartlett4 as long ago as 1905, although his report was only rediscovered in 1959. The presence of the ‘flowery’ type has yet to be confirmed.
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ARCHIBALD, J. Transmission of Gall-Diseases of Cacao, Mango, and Pigeon Pea. Nature 190, 284 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/190284a0
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